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"The General of the Dead Army" is the most critically acclaimed novel by the Albanian writer Ismail Kadare. Every country has at least two faces: the face of its legend and its true face. Albania is no exception. The main character of the work is a funeral general, a pensive mountaineer with a stony gaze, with an upturned mustache and sunken cheeks, who evaluates you, revealing and knocking out all your arrogance. He and the priest came here to search for and collect the remains of the soldiers of their country who died on the first day of the war. This is a novel about merciless war and the most uncompromising friendship, a policeman at every door, a secret at every turn of the road...