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 stateThrough the impeccably crafted, incisive tale of a thwarted lover''s odyssey through a single day, we are given a true sense of how hard it can be to remain human in a world ruled by fear and suspicion.
Format |
Häftad |
Omfång |
240 sidor |
Språk |
Engelska |
Förlag |
Canongate Books |
Utgivningsdatum |
2008-02-07 |
ISBN |
9781841959788 |