The successor : a novel
Kadare, Ismail
The successor : a novel / Ismail Kadare ; translated from the French by David Bellos. - 1st English-language ed. - New York : Arcade Pub. , 2005. - 207 p. ; 22 cm.
First published in Albanian as Pasardhësi by Shtëpia Botuese.
In 1981, on a December night, the designated successor to Albania's tyrannical "Guide" died of a gunshot wound; the Albanian news reported it as a suicide, but rumors spoke of murder. The search for the story of that night spirals inward from the speculations of foreign intelligence analysts to the posthumous and fragmentary recollections of the successor himself.
Translated from the French to English.
The Man Booker International Prize 2005.
9781559707732
Dictatorship ----Fiction
Albania ----Fiction
Historical fiction
Mystery fiction
PG9621.K3 / P3713 2005
FIC KAD
The successor : a novel / Ismail Kadare ; translated from the French by David Bellos. - 1st English-language ed. - New York : Arcade Pub. , 2005. - 207 p. ; 22 cm.
First published in Albanian as Pasardhësi by Shtëpia Botuese.
In 1981, on a December night, the designated successor to Albania's tyrannical "Guide" died of a gunshot wound; the Albanian news reported it as a suicide, but rumors spoke of murder. The search for the story of that night spirals inward from the speculations of foreign intelligence analysts to the posthumous and fragmentary recollections of the successor himself.
Translated from the French to English.
The Man Booker International Prize 2005.
9781559707732
Dictatorship ----Fiction
Albania ----Fiction
Historical fiction
Mystery fiction
PG9621.K3 / P3713 2005
FIC KAD
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