A Dictator Calls - Ismail Kadare Jan Versteeg An ardent reader of sentimental

An ardent reader of sentimental novels

zien ze dat er een rode verfstreep om hun huis is geschilderd

is one of the most influential plays of the twentieth century

Mr and Mrs Ramsay and their eight children have always holidayed at their summer house in Skye

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A Dictator Calls - Ismail Kadare Jan Versteeg An ardent reader of sentimentalIn June 1934, Joseph Stalin allegedly telephoned the famous novelist and poet Boris Pasternak to discuss the arrest of fellow Soviet poet Osip Mandelstam. In a fascinating combination of dreams and dossier facts, Ismail Kadare reconstructs the three minutes they spoke and the aftershocks of this tense, mysterious moment in modern history. Weaving together the accounts of witnesses, reporters and writers such as Isaiah Berlin and Anna Akhmatova, Kadare