A Girl in Exile: Requiem for Linda B.

A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice

“Erotic, paranoiac and lightly fantastical.” —The Wall Street Journal

“At a time when parts of the world are indulging nostalgia for communism, Kadare’s novel confronts the infuriating impossibility of art in an autocratic, anti–individualist system.” —The Washington Post

During the bureaucratic machinery of Albania’s 1945–1991 dictatorship, playwright Rudian Stefa is called in for questioning by the Party Committee. A girl—Linda B.—has been found d...