Ismail Kadare, who was rewarded the Man Booker __1__international Prize for literature this year, is the first Alabanian writer to be taken notice in nearly 80 years. His classic novel, __2__The General of the Dead Army, is a meditation on the consequences of war, a hugely moved account of the meaning of duty and the __3__tragedy that blind obedience entails.It is early 1960s, nearly 20 years as the Second World War __4__ended. An Italian General, accompanied with a sinister priest __5__who is also Italian army colonel, is sent to Alabania to locate __6__ PJiU2Y33
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Like this Italian counterpart, the German too struggles in the remote countryside, against the cold and rain and the hostile terrain. It is a thankless job looking for the remains of dead “souls” merely to take them back home for a decent burial. Is it worthy the exercise? Isn’t __10__this a mistaken sense of national honor? PQDLbSe)\
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