Also by Ismail Kadare
The General of the Dead Army
The Wedding
Broken April
The Concert
The Palace of Dreams
The Three-Arched Bridge
The Pyramid
The File on H
Albanian Spring: Anatomy of Tyranny
Elegy for Kosovo
Spring Flowers, Spring Frost
Published by Canongate
The Successor
Chronicle in Stone
Agamemnon’s Daughter, with The Blinding Order
and The Great Wall
The Siege
The Accident
Copyright
First published as Kush i solli Doruntinen? in 1980 in the collection Gjakftohtësia by Naim Frashëri, Tirana
First English edition published as Doruntine in 1988 by New Amsterdam Books, 4720 Boston Way, Lanham, MD 20706 and by Saqi Books, London
This edition first published as The Ghost Rider in Great Britain in 2010 by Canongate Books Ltd, 14High Street, Edinburgh EH1 1TE
This digital edition first published by Canongate Books in 2010
Copyright © Ismail Kadare, 1980
French translation copyright © Librarie Arthème Fayard, 1986 as Qui a ramené Doruntine?
English translation copyright © Jon Rothschild, 1988, updated, with new sections added, by Ismail Kadare and David Bellos, 2010
Introduction copyright © David Bellos, 2010
The moral rights of the author and translators have been asserted
British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data
A catalogue record for this book is available on request from the British Library
ISBN 978 1 84767 909 3
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Grangemouth, Stirlingshire
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