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    Agamemnon's Daughter: A Novella & Stories

    By Ismail Kadare

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    “An extraordinary portrait of tyranny” from the winner of the Man Booker International Prize and author of A Girl in Exile (The New York Times).
     
    Psychologically incisive and impeccably crafted, Agamemnon’s Daughter tells the crushing story of passion shattered by a heartless regime. Once again, Kadare denounces with rare force the machinery of oppression, drawing us back to the ancient roots of Western civilization and tyranny.
     
    This collection also showcases two masterful stories: “The Blinding Order,” a parable about the uses of terror in the Ottoman Empire, and “The Great Wall,” a chilling duet between a Chinese official and a soldier in the invading army of the great conqueror, Tamerlane.
     
    “Kadare is inevitably likened to Orwell and Kundera, but he is a far deeper ironist than the first, and a better storyteller than the second. He is a compellingly ironic storyteller because he so brilliantly summons details that explode with symbolic reality.” —The New Yorker
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Integrated Media
    Release dateDec 3, 2011
    ISBN9781628722338
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    Ismail Kadare

    Ismail Kadare is Albania’s best known novelist, whose name is mentioned annually in discussions of the Nobel Prize. He won the inaugural Man Booker International Prize in 2005; in 2009 he received the Príncipe de Asturias de las Letras, Spain’s most prestigious literary award, and in 2015 he won the Jerusalem Prize. In 2016 he was named a Commandeur de la Légion d'Honneur. James Wood has written of his work, "Kadare is inevitably likened to Orwell and Kundera, but he is a far deeper ironist than the first, and a better storyteller than the second. He is a compellingly ironic storyteller because he so brilliantly summons details that explode with symbolic reality." His last book to be published in English, The Traitor’s Niche, was nominated for the Man Booker International.

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    • 4/5
      The title story and The Blinding Order are great, chilling short stories depicting the horrors and arbitrariness of a totalitarian regime (only the title story is actually set in the author's native Albania). The Great Wall has some interesting things to say about clashes of civilisations, but I thought was less effective.
    • 4/5
      Kafka meets Communism. The world described is very much like Stalin's Russia, which, given that Albania went off on its own, makes me wonder: were all communist states so similar? Wry humour, pessimism and bullseye simplicity are the hallmarks. Other books of Kadare's more vivid, but the Great Wall story reverberates in my mind.