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The Succesor Reprint Edition
Author(s): Ismail Kadare (Author), David Bellos (Translator)
- Publisher: Arcade Publishing
- Publication Date: 7 May 2013
- Edition: Reprint
- Language: English
- Print length: 216 pages
- ISBN-10: 1611458072
- ISBN-13: 9781611458077
Book Description
And then, shortly before Shehu was to assume power, he was found dead. The Successor is simultaneously a mystery novel, a historical novel-based on actual events and buttressed by the author’s private conversations with the son of the real-life Mehmet Shehu, and a psychological novel. How do you live when nothing is sure?
Editorial Reviews
Review
Kadare is a writer who maps a whole culture–its history, its passion, its folklore, its disasters. He is a universal writer in a tradition of storytelling that goes back to Homer. –John Carey
Kadare writes in a dimension different from the prophetic realism of George Orwell and Arthur Koestler, and darker and perhaps narrower than the prophetic fantasy of Franz Kafka. . . . He has the gift of writing parables of great weight in the lightest of tones.
