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...

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Kadare Ismail, Ismail Kadare
• Con la collaborazione di: David Bellos (Traduzione), Barbara Bray (Traduzione)
• Editore: Vintage UK
• Contenuto: Libro
• Forma del prodotto: Tascabile
• Data pubblicazione: 05.09.2013
• Categoria: Narrativa > Romanzi
• EAN: 9780099560920
• ISBN: 978-0-09-956092-0
• Numero di pagine: 128
• Dimensioni (della confezione): 13 x 19.7 x 0.8 cm
• Categorie: Albanische SchriftstellerInnen: Werke (div.), Politics, Historical fiction, Contemporary, Egypt, Historical, Fiction in translation, political, Ismail Kadare, Political structures: totalitarianism and dictatorship, Literary fiction, FICTION / World Literature / Europe (General), egypt; kadare ismail; booker prize winners; ismail kadare, contemporary fiction, booker prize winners, hitorical, thrilling suspenseful nights