Spring Flowers, Spring Frost

{{Short description|2000 novel by Ismail Kadare}} {{Use dmy dates|date=May 2021}} {{Infobox book |  | name = Spring Flowers, Spring Frost | title_orig = Lulet e Ftohta të marsit | translator = [[David Bellos]] | image = File:Lulet e ftohta të marsit.jpg | border = yes | caption = First edition | author = [[Ismail Kadare]] | cover_artist = [[Kazimir Malevich]], ''Head of Peasant'' - 1932 | country = [[Albania]] | language = [[Albanian language|Albanian]] | series = | genre = [[novel]] | publisher = [[Onufri Publishing House]] | publisher2 = [[The Harvill Press]] | pub_date = 2000 | english_pub_date = 2002 | media_type = | pages = 182 | isbn = 978-0099449836 }} '''''Spring Flowers, Spring Frost''''' ({{Langx|sq|Lulet e ftohta të marsit|lit=Cold Flowers of March}}) is a 2000 novel by Albanian author [[Ismail Kadare]] set in the 1990s when feuding and vendetta had returned to the country after the fall of the communist regime.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Boxall |first1=Petert |editor1-last=Boxall |editor1-first=Peter |title=1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die |date=2006 |publisher=Universe |location=New York |isbn=978-0789313706 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780789313706/page/901 901] |edition=1st |quote=''Spring Flowers, Spring Frost'' is set in contemporary Albania and tells the story of Mark Gurabardhi, an artist who is struggling to live and work after the fall of his country's communist regime. |url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780789313706/page/901 }}</ref> The English translation by [[David Bellos]] was first published by [[The Harvill Press]] in 2002, and then by [[Vintage Books]] in 2003. It was translated not directly from Albanian, but from the French translation by [[Jusuf Vrioni]] (published by [[Fayard]]).

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{{Ismail Kadare}} [[Category:2000 in Albania]] [[Category:2000 novels]] [[Category:20th-century Albanian novels]] [[Category:Novels by Ismail Kadare]] [[Category:Novels set in Albania]] [[Category:Novels set in the 1990s]] [[Category:Onufri Publishing House books]]