In his compelling prequel to The Successor, Kadare draws us into a land deprived of choice, a country under a reign of terror. The spellbinding Agamemnon's Daughter was written in Albania in the 1980s and smuggled into France a few pages at a time. It reveals a world where fear is an instrument of power, but the individual survives despite the odds. From the winner of the first Man Booker International Prize comes a searing story of love denied, then shattered under the chilling wheels of the state. Through the impeccably crafted, incisive tale of a thwarted lover's odyssey through a single day, we are given a true sense of how hard it can be to remain human in a world ruled by fear and suspicion.
| ISBN: | 9781841959788 |
| Publication date: | 7th February 2008 |
| Author: | Ismail Kadare |
| Publisher: | Canongate Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 240 pages |
| Genres: |
Modern and Contemporary Fiction Translated Fiction |