The Palace of Dreams

Informationen zum Autor Ismail Kadare (1936–2024) is Albania's best-known novelist and poet. Translations of his novels have appeared in more than forty countries. He was awarded the inaugural Man Booker International Prize in 2005, the Jerusalem Prize in 2015, the Park Kyong-ni Prize in 2019 and the Neustadt Prize in 2020. Klappentext Translated by Barbara Bray from the French version of the Albanian by Jusuf VrioniAt the heart of the Sultan's vast empire stands the mysterious Palace of Dreams. Zusammenfassung Discover a novel which arose from the author's ambition to invent a hell of his own. Kadare's macabre vision of tyranny was banned immediately when it first appeared in Albania in 1981. At the heart of the Sultan's vast empire stands the mysterious Palace of Dreams. Inside, the dreams of every citizen are collected, sorted and interpreted in order to identify the 'master-dreams' that will provide the clues to the Empire's destiny and that of its Monarch. An entire nation's consciousness is thus meticulously laid bare and at the mercy of its government... Translated by Barbara Bray from the French version of the Albanian by Jusuf Vrioni

Product details

• Authors: Ismail Kadare, Kadare Ismail
• Assisted by: Barbara Bray (Translation)
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 04.12.2008
• EAN: 9780099518273
• ISBN: 978-0-09-951827-3
• No. of pages: 192
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 13 mm
• Series: Vintage Classics; Vintage Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Albanische SchriftstellerInnen: Werke (div.), Fiction in translation, Narrative theme: Politics, Political structures: totalitarianism and dictatorship, FICTION / World Literature / Europe (General), Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary