Fishawi,Cairo

Ismail Kadare writes of his apprentiship in France at a Cafe in front of "le jardin de Luxembourg" where he hoped to meet his idol, Julien Gracq, who taught at Lycée Henri 4. He met Modiano crossing le Jardin de Luxembourg, however. Very nice review of Kadare, in Jan 19 Figaro matinées au rostand translated from the Albanian...he also talks of cafés in Tirana