The Canterbury Tales meets Kafka in Ismail Kadare’s mini, epic collection entitled Three Elegies for Kosovo. In this elegantly crafted novella, Ismail Kadare draws on the infamous 1389 Battle of Kosovo, now surrounded by legends of treachery and defeat, to illustrate a quarrel that has brewed for more than six hundred years. Today, the Battle of Kosovo is a national holiday in Serbia, and since the battle, many notable events have fallen on this day, the most recent being the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, sparking WWI. You can read the full post here.