The Pyramid

When the new Egyptian Pharaoh decrees that he does not want a pyramid built in his honour his advisers are aghast. It is their firm belief that peace and prosperity only make the people more difficult to control - they must be kept under the whip. So the Pharaoh agrees to the construction of a pyramid colossal beyond imagining, an edifice that crushes dozens of people as each block is added and which inexorably drains the lifeblood from the country. As Egypt builds its monument to death, its neighbours plot and gloat...

Product details

• Authors: Ismail Kadare, Kadare Ismail
• Assisted by: David Bellos (Translation), Barbara Bray (Translation)
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 05.09.2013
• EAN: 9780099560920
• ISBN: 978-0-09-956092-0
• No. of pages: 128
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 197 mm x 8 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Albanische SchriftstellerInnen: Werke (div.), Egypt, Fiction in translation, Political structures: totalitarianism and dictatorship, FICTION / World Literature / Europe (General), egypt; kadare ismail; booker prize winners; ismail kadare