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On the seventeenth of March, Gjorg Berisha, a young man of the Albanian highlands, kills the man who killed his brother, as the ancient code demands, and has thirty days of truce before he will be killed in turn.
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The General of the Dead Army
Twenty years after the Second World War, an Italian general and a priest travel the mountains of Albania to dig up and bring home the bones of their dead soldiers.
Chronicle in Stone
A boy grows up in Gjirokastër, a city of stone in southern Albania, during the Second World War, as Italians, Greeks and Germans take turns occupying it.
Chronicle of a Death Foretold
Twenty-seven years later, a narrator reconstructs the hours before the murder of Santiago Nasar in a Caribbean town where everyone knew the killers' plan, and no one stopped them.
The Pastoral Symphony
A Protestant pastor in the Swiss Jura takes in Gertrude, a blind, abandoned orphan girl, and in his journal tells how he taught her to see the world, and how he came to love her.
Memed, My Hawk
Memed, a boy in the Taurus mountains of southern Turkey, runs from the cruel landlord who owns his village, and becomes an outlaw and a legend.
After the Divorce
When Costantino is sentenced to prison for a murder he didn't commit, his wife Giovanna, under a new law allowing divorce, takes a richer husband in their Sardinian village.
Men in the Sun
Three Palestinian refugees of different ages pay a smuggler to get them across the desert from Basra to Kuwait inside the empty tank of a water truck.
Samskara
When Naranappa, a Brahmin who broke every rule, dies in a south Indian village, the other Brahmins can't decide who should perform his last rites, and Praneshacharya, the most learned of them, faces his own crisis.
The Mother
In a remote Sardinian mountain village, the mother of the young parish priest learns that her son, for whom she gave up everything, is visiting a lonely woman at night.
Embers
Two old friends meet after 41 years to confront betrayal, love, and a night that ended everything.
Strait Is the Gate
Jérôme loves his cousin Alissa from childhood, and she loves him, but her piety and her conviction that love must reach for something higher keep pushing him away.
The Thief and the Dogs
Said Mahran walks out of a Cairo prison determined to take revenge on his wife, who left him for his accomplice, and on the mentor who betrayed his ideals.