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    <title>Tambours de la pluie</title>
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    <namePart>Kadare, Ismail.</namePart>
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    <namePart>Vrioni, Jusuf.</namePart>
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    <namePart>Bellos, David.</namePart>
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    <publisher>Canongate</publisher>
    <dateIssued>2009</dateIssued>
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  <abstract>The story of  the siege of a Christian citadel in the Albanian mountains by the Ottoman Army in the 15th century.</abstract>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">Ismail Kadare ; translated from the French of Jusuf Vrioni by David Bellos.</note>
  <note>"This translation made from the definitive edition of the text published as Les Tambours de la pluie in Ismail Kadre, Oeuvres complètes, t. II. Paris: Fayard, 1994, translated from the Albanian by Jusuf Vrioni"--T.p. verso.</note>
  <note>First published: Tirana, Albania : Shtëpia Botuese Naim Frashëri, 1970 under title: Kështjella. Roman.</note>
  <note>This translation made from the French translation by Jusuf Vrioni of the Albanian original.</note>
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    <geographic>Albania</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
    <temporal>Turkish Wars, 15th century</temporal>
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