The ThreeArched Bridge

<p><b>A hard-hitting parable about the conflicts that have ravaged the Balkan states, by Albania’s most influential novelist.</b><br><br>When the construction of a bridge built to link the Balkans to Europe is repeatedly and mysteriously sabotaged, an old ballad starts making the rounds at local taverns. The bards sing of a legend – a woman immured in a castle wall to prevent it from falling. Some say the bridge is being damaged by local ferrymen, others blame the vengeful water spirits. But this is a town where terror and superstition reign and a solution must be reached. So it is decreed: a willing person must be plastered into the bridge…<br><br><b>‘A vivid, macabre and wise novel’ <i>New York Times</i></b></p>