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The Pyramid

English · Paperback

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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...

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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

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