A great novel . . . a joyful, often comic piece of work -- James Wood * * New Yorker * *
Sophisticated and accomplished in its poetic prose and narrative deftness -- John Updike * * New Yorker * *
A master storyteller -- John Carey
Ismail Kadare has sometimes been compared with Kafka, and you can see why * * Mail on Sunday * *
There are very few writers alive today with the depth, power and resonance of this remarkable novelist * * Herald * *
Chronicle in Stone is stunning, the quintessential tale of war seen through a child's eyes -- Susan Salter Reynolds * * Los Angeles Times * *
Writing like this is hard to stop quoting...It is musical not only in rhythms that survive in this deft...translation but in its most elemental perceptions * * -Evan Eisenberg, The Nation * *
[Albania's] most remarkable export: the novels of Ismail Kadare * * Ken Kalfus, The Village Voice Literary Supplement * *
Chronicle in Stone is epic in its simplicity; the history of a young Albanian and a primitive Albania awakening into the modern world * * Michael Dregni, Minneapolis Star Tribune * *
