The Pyramid - Softcover

Kadare, Ismail

 
9780099560920: The Pyramid
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0099560925 ISBN 13: 9780099560920
Verlag: Vintage Classics, 2013

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Discover Kadare's classic parable of life under a communist dictatorship

When the new Egyptian Pharaoh decrees that he does not want a pyramid built in his honour his advisers are aghast. It is their firm belief that peace and prosperity only make the people more difficult to control – they must be kept under the whip. So the Pharaoh agrees to the construction of a pyramid colossal beyond imagining, an edifice that crushes dozens of people as each block is added and which inexorably drains the lifeblood from the country. As Egypt builds its monument to death, its neighbours plot and gloat…

‘He has been compared to Gogol, Kafka and Orwell. But Kadare’s is an original voice, universal yet deeply rooted in his own soil’ Independent on Sunday

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Ismail Kadare is Albania's best-known novelist and poet. Translations of his novels have appeared in more than forty countries. He was awarded the inaugural Man Booker International Prize in 2005, the Jerusalem Prize in 2015, the Park Kyong-ni Prize in 2019 and the Neustadt Prize in 2020.

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When the new Egyptian Pharaoh decrees that he does not want a pyramid built in his honour his advisers are aghast. So the Pharaoh agrees to the construction of a pyramid colossal beyond imagining, an edifice that crushes dozens of people as each block is added and which inexorably drains the lifeblood from the country.

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Verlag
Vintage Classics
Erscheinungsdatum
2013
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0099560925
ISBN 13 
9780099560920
Einband
Taschenbuch
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
128
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