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.
ISBN: | 9781841959788 |
Publication date: | 7th February 2008 |
Author: | Ismail Kadare |
Publisher: | Canongate an imprint of Canongate Books |
Format: | Paperback |
Pagination: | 226 pages |
Genres: |
Modern and Contemporary Fiction Fiction in translation |