The Successor
The Designated Successor was found dead in his bedroom at dawn on December 14.Did he kill himself or was he murdered?This question slices through Ismail Kadare's masterful psychological thriller. As the state insists that the future leader died by his own hand, the rest of the world begins to have doubts. Tension builds and rumours escalate, while Kadare draws us into a nightmarish world controlled by rules no one understands, blending dream and reality to produce a mystery and a thriller that seduces and surprises up to the last page.Combines all the readability of a crime novel with the innovatory adventurousness of a work created by a writ…
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Weitere Autoren: Bellos, David (Übers.)
- ISBN: 978-1-84195-887-3
- EAN: 9781841958873
- Produktnummer: 2645785
- Verlag: Canongate Books Ltd
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
- Seitenangabe: 224 S.
- Masse: H19.7 cm x B12.9 cm x D1.4 cm 168 g
- Auflage: Main
- Gewicht: 168
Über den Autor
ISMAIL KADARE was born in 1936 in Gjirokaster, in the south of Albania. He studied in Tirana and Moscow, returning to Albania in 1960 after the country broke ties with the Soviet Union. Translations of his novels have since been published in more than forty countries, and in 2005 he became the first winner of the Man Booker International Prize. DAVID BELLOS, Director of the Program in Translation at Princeton University, is also the translator of Georges Perec's Life A User's Manual and a winner of the Goncourt Prize for biography. He has translated seven of Ismail Kadare's novels, and in 2005 was awarded the Man Booker International Prize for his translations of Kadare's work.
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