
The Pyramid
by Ismail Kadare
Title:
The Pyramid
Author:
Ismail Kadare
Format:
Paperback
Number of pages:
128 pages
Publisher:
TBS-Penguin Random House Wholesale
ISBN-13:
9780099560920
EAN:
9780099560920
Classifications:
Modern and Contemporary (Post c 1945)
Weight (g):
218
Dimensions (mm):
198 x 129 x 9
Publication Country:
United Kingdom
Language:
English
Condition:
New
Description
Discover Kadare's classic parable of life under a communist dictatorshipWhen 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




















