The Ghost Rider

  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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