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 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 Zusammenfassung 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.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Ismail Kadare, Kadare Ismail
• Con la collaborazione di: Barbara Bray (Traduzione)
• Editore: Vintage UK
• Contenuto: Libro
• Forma del prodotto: Tascabile
• Data pubblicazione: 04.12.2008
• Categoria: Narrativa > Romanzi
• EAN: 9780099518273
• ISBN: 978-0-09-951827-3
• Numero di pagine: 192
• Dimensioni (della confezione): 12.9 x 19.8 x 1.3 cm
• Serie: Vintage Classics; Vintage Classics
• Categorie: Revolution, Religion, Drama, Comedy, Albanische SchriftstellerInnen: Werke (div.), Mystery, classic, Thriller, Politics, Society, Historical fiction, Law, Dystopia, War, Historical, Philosophy, Fiction in translation, monarch, Middle East, world history, Military, political, Dreams, Narrative theme: Politics, Colonialism, Government, Fascism, Political structures: totalitarianism and dictatorship, Broken City, Literary fiction, the fall, FICTION / World Literature / Europe (General), Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, contemporary fiction, vintage classics, historical novels, broken april, siege of stone