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A thick fog covers the Plain of Blackbirds

Julian Evans

  • Trois Chants Funébres pour le Kosovo by Ismail Kadare, translated by Jusuf Vrioni

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Julian Evans is the author of Transit of Venus, a book of travels in the Pacific.

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