Twilight of the Eastern Gods

<p>1958. In a dorm room in Moscow, a young writer is woken by the sound of angry voices on the radio. Through the fog of a hangover, he hears the news that a novel called <em>Doctor Zhivago</em> has earned its author the Nobel Prize. There is uproar. The author, Boris Pasternak, faces exile, the press hounds him and demands that he refuse the award. A few days earlier the young writer found a copy of this book - could those simple pages really be so dangerous?<br /><br />Based on Ismail Kadare's own experience, <em>Twilight of the Eastern Gods </em>is a portrait of a city, a story of youthful disenchantment and a reminder of the incredible importance of the written word.</p>