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The
2007 Award
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The Successor by Ismail Kadare
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ABOUT
THE BOOK
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powerful political novel based on the sudden, mysterious death of the man
who had been handpicked to succeed the hated Albanian dictator Enver Hoxha.
Did he commit suicide or was he murdered? That is the burning question. The man who died by his own hand, or another's, was Mehmet Shehu, the presumed heir to the ailing dictator, Enver Hoxha. So sure was the world that he was next in line, he was known as The Successor. And then, shortly before he was to assume power, he was found dead. The Successor is simultaneously a mystery novel, a historical novel-based on actual events and buttressed by the author's private conversations with the son of the real-life Mehmet Shehu-and a psychological novel (How do you live when nothing is sure?). Vintage Kadare, The Successor seamlessly blends dream and reality, legendary past, and contemporary history. |
| ABOUT THE AUTHOR |
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Ismail Kadare, Albania's best known poet and novelist, is acclaimed worldwide as one of the most important writers of our time. Arcade has published six of his novels, The Pyramid, The Three-Arched Bridge, The Concert, The Palace of Dreams, The FIle on H, Elegy For Kosovo and Spring Flowers, Spring Frost. |
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