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The mysterious Palace of Dreams stands at the heart of a vast but fragile Balkan empire. Inside, workers assiduously sift, sort, classify, and ultimately interpret the dreams of the empire’s citizens. The workers search out Master-Dreams that will provide clues to the destiny of the empire and its Sultan. Mark-Alem, scion of a noble family that has provided viziers to the Sultan from time immemorial, and whose power the Sultan distrusts, is recruited into the Palace of Dreams at the humblest level.
He immediately feels the terrible pressure that drives his coworkers, the dread of overlooking a crucial dream whose capture and interpretation might avert political disaster. But he rapidly rises through the hierarchy only barely ?nding his bearings in one section of the Palace’s labyrinthine passages that represent the entire empire’s consciousness laid bare before he is promoted to another. And the pressure only increases as he becomes familiar with the fates of subversive dreamers and personally responsible for the sorts of dreams that might ruin an entire family. A family like his own with this beautifully bound hardcover edition, The Palace of Dreams is powerfully imagined and beautifully written, a national classic from one of Albania’s premiere literary voices.
He immediately feels the terrible pressure that drives his coworkers, the dread of overlooking a crucial dream whose capture and interpretation might avert political disaster. But he rapidly rises through the hierarchy only barely ?nding his bearings in one section of the Palace’s labyrinthine passages that represent the entire empire’s consciousness laid bare before he is promoted to another. And the pressure only increases as he becomes familiar with the fates of subversive dreamers and personally responsible for the sorts of dreams that might ruin an entire family. A family like his own with this beautifully bound hardcover edition, The Palace of Dreams is powerfully imagined and beautifully written, a national classic from one of Albania’s premiere literary voices.
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"Kadare's most daring novel, one of the most complete visions of totalitarianism ever committed to paper" (Vanity Fair)
"If there is a book worth banning in a dictatorship, this is it" (Guardian)
"Kadare's delicately misted view of another world (as much internal as totalitarian) lives up to the splendour of his title" (Independent on Sunday)
"Inexorably takes your breath away" (Herald)
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"If there is a book worth banning in a dictatorship, this is it" (Guardian)
"Kadare's delicately misted view of another world (as much internal as totalitarian) lives up to the splendour of his title" (Independent on Sunday)
"Inexorably takes your breath away" (Herald)
A novel which arose from the author’s ambition to invent a hell of his own, Kadare’s macabre vision of tyranny and oppression was banned immediately when it first appeared in Albania in 1981.
Translated by Barbara Bray from the French version of the Albanianby Jusuf Vrioni
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- PublisherArcade Publishing
- Publication date2011
- ISBN 10 1611453275
- ISBN 13 9781611453270
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages208
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