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A Dictator Calls

By Ismail Kadare

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A Dictator Calls

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**LONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 2024** 'Comrade Stalin wishes to speak with you.' In June 1934, Joseph Stalin allegedly telephoned the famous novelist and poet Boris Pasternak to discuss the arrest of fellow Soviet poet Osip Mandelstam. In a fascinating combination of dreams and dossier facts, Ismail Kadare reconstructs the three minutes they spoke and the aftershocks of this tense, mysterious moment in modern history. Weaving together the accounts of witnesses, reporters and writers such as Isaiah Berlin and Anna Akhmatova, Kadare tells a gripping story of power and political structures, of the relationship between writers and tyranny. The telling brings to light uncanny parallels with Kadare's experience writing under dictatorship, when he received an unexpected phone call of his own. Translated from the Albanian by John Hodgson 'Kadare is one of Europe's most consistently interesting and powerful contemporary novelists, a writer whose stark, memorable prose imprints itself on the reader's consciousness,' Los Angeles Times
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
240
Release Date:
2023-08-31
Publication Date:
2023-08-31
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1787303632
ISBN13:
9781787303638
Weight:
307 g
Height:
135 cm
Width:
206 cm
Thickness:
27 cm

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