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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 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.
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"A master storyteller." John Carey "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." The Sunday Times "Dream and reality melt together, as in Kafka, making it difficult to identify where the nightmares really begin." Misha Glenny, The Times"
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ISMAIL KADARE was born in 1936 in Gjirokaster, in the south of Albania. His first novel, The General of the Dead Army, established him as a respected writer, and translations of his novels have since been published in more than forty countries. In 2005 he won the inaugural Man Booker International Prize. DAVID BELLOS, a Professor of French and Comparative Literature, has translated five of Kadare's novels and was awarded the Translator's Man Booker International Prize in 2005.
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