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24%OFFIsmail Kadare - Agamemnon's Daughter - 9781841959788 - V9781841959788
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Agamemnon's Daughter

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Description for Agamemnon's Daughter Paperback. Draws us into a land deprived of choice, a country under a reign of terror. This title reveals a world where fear is an instrument of power, but the individual survives despite the odds. Translator(s): Bellos, David. Num Pages: 240 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 11. Weight in Grams: 175.

In his compelling prequel to The Successor, Kadare draws us into a land deprived of choice, a country under a reign of terror. The spellbinding Agamemnon's Daughter was written in Albania in the 1980s and smuggled into France a few pages at a time. It reveals a world where fear is an instrument of power, but the individual survives despite the odds.

From the winner of the first Man Booker International Prize comes a searing story of love denied, then shattered under the chilling wheels of the state. Through the impeccably crafted, incisive tale of a thwarted lover's odyssey ... Read more

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Product Details

Publisher
Canongate Books Ltd.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781841959788
SKU
V9781841959788
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About Ismail Kadare
Born in 1936, Ismail Kadare was Albania's best-known poet and novelist. Translations of his novels have appeared in more than forty countries. In 2005, he won the inaugural Man Booker International Prize for 'a body of work written by an author who has had a truly global impact'. He is the recipient of the highly prestigious 2009 Principe de Asturias ... Read more

Reviews for Agamemnon's Daughter
Kadare brilliantly recreates the atmosphere of shadowy fear, rumours and recrimination in Albania . . . a mesmerically readable parable about the abuse of state power

Observer

Suffused with the power of thought and feeling . . . Above all, Kadare creates a haunting sense of the absurd

Sunday Times
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