The SiegeThe Ottoman Armythe most powerful the world had known at that timelays siege to a Christian fortress in the mountains of Albania. Above the colourful host looms the great dark wall of the citadel that must be overcome. Told partly through the personal narrative of one of the defenders, and partly through the eyes of the Ottoman chronicler Mevla Celebi, Ismail Kadare's The Siege is a gripping narrative of a bloody, complex struggle that ends in defeat