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The Palace Of Dreams
  • Published: 15 December 2008
  • ISBN: 9780099518273
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 192
  • RRP: $24.99
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The Palace Of Dreams

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15 Dec 2008
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A novel which arose from the author's ambition to invent a hell of his own, Kadare's macabre vision of tyranny and oppression was banned immediately when it first appeared in Albania in 1981.

Discover a novel which arose from the author's ambition to invent a hell of his own. Kadare's macabre vision of tyranny was banned immediately when it first appeared in Albania in 1981.

At the heart of the Sultan's vast empire stands the mysterious Palace of Dreams.

Inside, the dreams of every citizen are collected, sorted and interpreted in order to identify the 'master-dreams' that will provide the clues to the Empire's destiny and that of its Monarch. An entire nation's consciousness is thus meticulously laid bare and at the mercy of its government...

Translated by Barbara Bray from the French version of the Albanian by Jusuf Vrioni
  • Published: 15 December 2008
  • ISBN: 9780099518273
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 192
  • RRP: $24.99
Categories:

About the author

Ismail Kadare

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, and the Jerusalem Prize in 2015.

IK

Also by Ismail Kadare

A Dictator Calls
The Doll
The Traitor's Niche
A Girl in Exile
The Three-Arched Bridge
The Concert
Three Elegies For Kosovo
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Praise for The Palace Of Dreams

Kadare's most daring novel, one of the most complete visions of totalitarianism ever committed to paper

Vanity Fair

If there is a book worth banning in a dictatorship, this is it

Guardian

Kadare's delicately misted view of another world (as much internal as totalitarian) lives up to the splendour of his title

Independent on Sunday

Inexorably takes your breath away

Herald