Samenvatting
Discover Kadare's classic parable of life under a communist dictatorship
When the new Egyptian Pharaoh decrees that he does not want a pyramid built in his honour his advisers are aghast. It is their firm belief that peace and prosperity only make the people more difficult to control – they must be kept under the whip. So the Pharaoh agrees to the construction of a pyramid colossal beyond imagining, an edifice that crushes dozens of people as each block is added and which inexorably drains the lifeblood from the country. As Egypt builds its monument to death, its neighbours plot and gloat…
‘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
Specificaties
ISBN13:9780099560920
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:Paperback
Aantal pagina's:128
Uitgever:Vintage Publishing
Verschijningsdatum:4-10-2024
Hoofdrubriek:Literatuur en romans
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