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 Pasardhėsi by Shtėpia 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.