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The Designated Successor was found dead in his bedroom at dawn on December 14. Did he kill himself or was he murdered? This question slices through Ismail Kadare's masterful psychological thriller. As the state insists that the future leader died by his own hand, the rest of the world begins to have doubts. As the tension builds and rumours escalate, Kadare draws us into a nightmarish world controlled by rules one understands, blending dream and reality to produce a mystery and a thriller that seduces and surprises up to the last page.Product Identifiers
PublisherCanongate Books Ltd
ISBN-101841958875
ISBN-139781841958873
eBay Product ID (ePID)107042903
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AuthorIsmail Kadare
FormatB-Format Paperback, Paperback
LanguageEnglish
TopicGeneral & Literary Fiction
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Place of PublicationEdinburgh
Translated byDavid Bellos
Author BiographyISMAIL KADARE was born in 1936 in Gjirokaster, in the south of Albania. He studied in Tirana and Moscow, returning to Albania in 1960 after the country broke ties with the Soviet Union. Translations of his novels have since been published in more than forty countries, and in 2005 he became the first winner of the Man Booker International Prize. DAVID BELLOS, a Professor of French and Comparative Literature, is a writer and translator who has translated five of Kadare's novels and was chosen by Kadare to be the winner of the Translator's Man Booker International Prize.
Date of Publication25/01/2007
Edition StatementMain
Country of PublicationUnited Kingdom