Broken April

Broken April Sources and ClassicNote Author

  • Ismail Kadare . Broken April. Chicago: New Amsterdam Books , 1982 .
  • Elsie, Robert. “Kadaré, Ismail.” Encyclopedia of World Literature in the 20th Century, edited by Steven Serafin, vol. 2, St. James Press, 1999, pp. 584–585.

  • MacMillan, Catherine. "Welcoming the enemy within?: hospitality, autoimmunity and the blood feud in Ismail Kadare’s Broken April." Law and Humanities, vol. 15, no. 2, 2021, pp. 279-299.

  • Morgan, Peter. “Ismail Kadare: Modern Homer or Albanian Dissident?” World Literature Today, vol. 80, no. 5, 2006, pp. 7–11.

  • Pali, Brunilda, and Robert Mackay. "Blood feud through the historical imagination of Ismail Kadare: An analysis of Broken April." Oñati Socio-Legal Series, 2021.

  • Elsie, Robert. A Dictionary of Albanian Religion, Mythology, and Folk Culture. New York University Press, 2001.

  • Joireman, Sandra F. “Aiming for Certainty: The Kanun, Blood Feuds and the Ascertainment of Customary Law.” The Journal of Legal Pluralism and Unofficial Law, vol. 46, no. 2, 2014, pp. 235–248.

  • Gould, Rebecca. “ALLEGORY AND THE CRITIQUE OF SOVEREIGNTY: ISMAIL KADARE’S POLITICAL THEOLOGIES.” Studies in the Novel, vol. 44, no. 2, 2012, pp. 208–30.

  • Herbert Mitgang. "Books of The Times; An Albanian Tale of Ineluctable Vengeance." The New York Times . Dec 12, 1990. Jan 13, 2023 . <https://www.nytimes.com/1990/12/12/books/books-of-the-times-an-albanian-tale-of-ineluctable-vengeance.html>.
  • Merle Rubin. "Albanian Revenge." The Christian Science Monitor . Oct 24, 1990 . Jan 13, 2023 . <https://www.csmonitor.com/1990/1024/dbapril.html>.
  • Dan Bilefsky. "In Albanian Feuds, Isolation Engulfs Families." The New York Times . July 12, 2008. Jan 14, 2023. <https://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/10/world/europe/10feuds.html>.
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