The Fall of the Stone City

The Fall of the Stone City
First edition cover showing Moche burial mask from Peru, A.D. 525–550.
AuthorIsmail Kadare
Original titleDarka e gabuar
TranslatorJohn Hodgson
LanguageAlbanian
Genrehistorical fiction, political fiction
PublisherOnufri
Publication date
2008
Publication placeAlbania
Published in English
2013
Pages176
ISBN978-0857860125

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 the novel was also shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize in 2013.