Successor, The

Successor, The
Ismael Kadare
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Paperback
h200 x 130mm - 220pg
6 Feb 2006 AU
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9781921145063
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A powerful political novel based on the sudden, mysterious death of the man who had been handpicked to succeed the hated Albanian dictator Enver Hoxha, by an author the Wall Street Journal called 'one of the most compelling novelists now writing in any language'. Did he commit suicide or was he murdered? That is the burning question. For the man who died by his own hand, or another's, was in real life Mehmet Shehu, the presumed heir to the ailing dictator. So sure was the world that he was next in line, he was known as The Successor. And then, shortly before he was to assume power, he was found dead. essor is simultaneously a mystery novel, an historical novel - b c sctual 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? Vintage Kadare, The Successor seamlessly blends dream and reality, legendary past and contemporary history.
ISMAIL KADARE was born in 1936 in Gjirokaster, in the south of Albania. He studied in Tirana and Moscow, returning to Albania in 1960 after the country broke ties with the Soviet Union. Translations of his novels have since been published in more than forty countries, and in 2005 he became the first winner of the Man Booker International Prize. DAVID BELLOS, Director of the Program in Translation at Princeton University, is also the translator of Georges Perec's Life A User's Manual and a winner of the Goncourt Prize for biography. He has translated seven of Ismail Kadare's novels, and in 2005 was awarded the Man Booker International Prize for his translations of Kadare's work.
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9781921145063
Published: 6 Feb 2006
Published In: Australia
Imprint: Text Publishing Company
Publisher: Text Publishing Co
Format: Paperback
Height: 200mm
Width: 130mm
Pages: 220
Dewey: 891.7

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