# Spring Flowers, Spring Frost

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2000 novel by Ismail Kadare

Spring Flowers, Spring Frost First edition Author Ismail Kadare Original title Lulet e Ftohta të marsit Translator David Bellos Cover artist Kazimir Malevich, Head of Peasant - 1932 Language Albanian Genre novel Publisher Onufri Publishing House, The Harvill Press Publication date 2000 Publication place Albania Published in English 2002 Pages 182 ISBN 978-0099449836

***Spring Flowers, Spring Frost*** ([Albanian](/source/Albanian_language): *Lulet e ftohta të marsit*, [lit.](/source/Literal_translation) 'Cold Flowers of March') is a 2000 novel by Albanian author [Ismail Kadare](/source/Ismail_Kadare) set in the 1990s when feuding and vendetta had returned to the country after the fall of the communist regime.[1] The English translation by [David Bellos](/source/David_Bellos) was first published by [The Harvill Press](/source/The_Harvill_Press) in 2002, and then by [Vintage Books](/source/Vintage_Books) in 2003. It was translated not directly from Albanian, but from the French translation by [Jusuf Vrioni](/source/Jusuf_Vrioni) (published by [Fayard](/source/Fayard)).

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** Boxall, Petert (2006). Boxall, Peter (ed.). [*1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die*](https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780789313706/page/901) (1st ed.). New York: Universe. pp. [901](https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780789313706/page/901). [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-0789313706](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0789313706). *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.

v t e Works by Ismail Kadare The General of the Dead Army (1963) The Siege (1970) Chronicle in Stone (1971) The Great Winter (1977) Twilight of the Eastern Gods (1978) The Traitor's Niche (1978) The Three-Arched Bridge (1978) Broken April (1980) The Ghost Rider (1980) The File on H. (1981) The Palace of Dreams (1981) The Concert (1988) The Blinding Order (1991) The Pyramid (1992) Spiritus (1996) Elegy for Kosovo (1998) Spring Flowers, Spring Frost (2000) Agamemnon's Daughter (2003) The Successor (2003) The Fall of the Stone City (2008) A Girl in Exile (2009) The Doll (2015)

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