The Fall of the Stone City

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The Fall of the Stone City

First edition cover showing Moche burial mask from Peru, A.D. 525–550.
Author	Ismail Kadare
Original title	Darka e gabuar
Translator	John Hodgson
Language	Albanian
Genre	historical fiction, political fiction
Publisher	Onufri
Publication date	2008
Publication place	Albania
Published in English	2013
Pages	176
ISBN	978-0857860125

The Fall of the Stone City (Albanian: Darka e gabuar) is a 2008 novel by the Albanian writer Ismail Kadare. Apart from winning the Rexhai Surroi Prize for the best book of the year, in Kosovo^[1] the novel was also shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize in 2013.^[2]