Among Kadare's other novels dealing with Albanian history are Kështjella (1970; The Castle or The Siege), a recounting of the armed resistance of the Albanian people against the Ottoman Turks in the 15th century, and Dimri i madh (1977; "The Great Winter"), which depicts the events that produced the break between Albania and the Soviet Union in 1961.
And Half Moon, a RockResort, in Rose Hall on the Northern coast is offering a seventh night free, $200 in resort credit and round-trip airport transfers with its Great Winter Thaw deal for stays between Jan . 5and April 1, with fewer blackout dates than last year.
Bach described Sochi 2014 as a "great Winter Olympic Games" and a "really special experience".
The largest number recorded in the Great Winter Nurdle Hunt weekend in early February were found at Widemouth Bay in Cornwall, where 33 volunteers from the Widemouth Task Force collected about 127,500 pellets on a 100-metre stretch of beach.
Top 5 Winter Gear for 2014- it's a great winter to be in the market for some swag.
At Mono, I found earrings, belts, a great winter coat and one off wild winter hat on sale for drop dead prices.
A1 A Winter Nightmare It has been a great winter for skiers in central and northern New England, but the heavy snowfall has become a nightmare for municipal budgets and the owners of dozens of buildings whose roofs have collapsed.
He said it was because Russia did not have winter sports facilities after the dissolution of the Soviet Union — those facilities had been based outside Russia — and because the I.O.C. wanted to help a great winter sports country build an infrastructure for winter sports.
Out of the great Winter counter-offensive that began on Dec. 6 of last year on the approaches to Moscow, Russian front-line cameramen have brought a film that will live in the archives of our time.
More damningly, some claim, Kadare's works written during the Hoxha reign – notably The Great Winter – clearly praise the leader and his split from the Soviets in 1961, after which the country's communism was synthesised with ultra-nationalist mythology.
