The Successor (Paperback)

Ismaïl Kadaré (author), David Bellos (translator)

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Paperback 224 Pages
Published: 25/01/2007

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Synopsis

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. As the tension builds and rumours escalate, 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.

Publisher: Canongate Books
ISBN: 9781841958873
Number of pages: 224
Weight: 160 g
Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 20 mm
Edition: Main

MEDIA REVIEWS

Brilliantly recreates the atmosphere of shadowy fear, rumours and recrimination in Albania. The Successor provides a mesmerically readable parable about the abuse of state power. - Observer

One of the most compelling novelists now writing. - Wall Street Journal

Suffused with the power of thought and feeling. Above all, Kadare creates a haunting sense of the absurd. - Sunday Times

From his youthful obsessions with Shakespeare and Homer, Kadare has retained not just a love of mystery and wit and a facility for clear, bleak language, but a sense of the text's own mystery and the impossibility of fully penetrating it... There is certainly nothing run-of-the-mill about Kadare's biting parable of tyranny. - Australian Financial Review