Agamemnon’s Daughter
- 7 Feb 2008
- 9781841959788
- £9.99
- 240 pp
- 130×197mm
- 15 Oct 2009
- 9781847678539
- £7.99
- 240 pp
In a few words
Sacrificed to further a father’s blood-soaked career; sacrificed for the common good; sacrificed, then forgotten.
In a few words
Sacrificed to further a father’s blood-soaked career; sacrificed for the common good; sacrificed, then forgotten.
Kadare brilliantly recreates the atmosphere of shadowy fear, rumours and recrimination in Albania . . . a mesmerically readable parable about the abuse of state power
Suffused with the power of thought and feeling . . . Above all, Kadare creates a haunting sense of the absurd
Kadare brilliantly recreates the atmosphere of shadowy fear, rumours and recrimination in Albania . . . a mesmerically readable parable about the abuse of state power
Suffused with the power of thought and feeling . . . Above all, Kadare creates a haunting sense of the absurd
More about
the book
In his compelling prequel to The Successor, Kadare draws us into a land deprived of choice, a country under a reign of terror. The spellbinding Agamemnon’s Daughter was written in Albania in the 1980s and smuggled into France a few pages at a time. It reveals a world where fear is an instrument of power, but the individual survives despite the odds.
From the winner of the first Man Booker International Prize comes a searing story of love denied, then shattered under the chilling wheels of the state. Through the impeccably crafted, incisive tale of a thwarted lover’s odyssey through a single day, we are given a true sense of how hard it can be to remain human in a world ruled by fear and suspicion.
More about
the book
In his compelling prequel to The Successor, Kadare draws us into a land deprived of choice, a country under a reign of terror. The spellbinding Agamemnon’s Daughter was written in Albania in the 1980s and smuggled into France a few pages at a time. It reveals a world where fear is an instrument of power, but the individual survives despite the odds.
From the winner of the first Man Booker International Prize comes a searing story of love denied, then shattered under the chilling wheels of the state. Through the impeccably crafted, incisive tale of a thwarted lover’s odyssey through a single day, we are given a true sense of how hard it can be to remain human in a world ruled by fear and suspicion.
Dream and reality melt together, as in Kafka, making it difficult to identify where the nightmares really begin
Dream and reality melt together, as in Kafka, making it difficult to identify where the nightmares really begin
Ismail Kadare
View profileBorn in 1936, Ismail Kadare was Albania’s best-known poet and novelist. Translations of his novels have appeared in more than forty countries. In 2005, he won the inaugural Man Booker International Prize for ‘a body of work written by an author who has had a truly global impact’. He is the recipient of the highly prestigious 2009 Principe de Asturias de las Letras in Spain. He died in 2024, aged 88.
Ismail Kadare
View profileBorn in 1936, Ismail Kadare was Albania’s best-known poet and novelist. Translations of his novels have appeared in more than forty countries. In 2005, he won the inaugural Man Booker International Prize for ‘a body of work written by an author who has had a truly global impact’. He is the recipient of the highly prestigious 2009 Principe de Asturias de las Letras in Spain. He died in 2024, aged 88.
