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Biographical note
Ismail Kadare (1936–2024) 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, the Jerusalem Prize in 2015, the Park Kyong-ni Prize in 2019 and the Neustadt Prize in 2020.[Kadare] chronicled the dark years of dictatorship in masterpieces such as <i>The Pyramid</i>
Independent
A haunting sense of time moving backwards and forwards like a train at a terminus, an authentic sense of adventure, and an extraordinary facility with metaphor take over… Kadare's new novel is mesmerising.
Sydney Morning Herald
A vast, deep, obsessive parable. Like every parable, its fundamental significance transcends its apparent meaning
Figaro
A masterpiece... A hauntingly beautiful parable woven from the fabric of history yet timeless in its reach
San Francisco Chronicle Book Review
In the end, this book - which does not have (or need) a conventional plot, protagonist or conflict - adds up to a haunting meditation on the matter-of-fact brutality of political despotism, the harshness of life among the humble and powerless, and the vastness, ubiquity and stonelike permanence of death, which treats all humanity as equals.
New York Times
He has been compared to Gogol, Kafka and Orwell. But Kadare’s is an original voice, universal yet deeply rooted in his own soil
Independent on Sunday