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A new novel from the acclaimed winner of the inaugural Man Booker International Prize for achievement in fiction.

The Successor is a powerful political novel based on the sudden, mysterious death of the man who had been handpicked to succeed the hated Albanian dictator Enver Hoxha.

The man who died was Mehmet Shehu, the presumed heir to the ailing dictator. The world was so certain that he was next in line that he was known as The Successor. And then, shortly before he was to assume power, he was found dead. Did he commit suicide or was he murdered?

The Successor is simultaneously a page-turning mystery, 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 challenge to the reader to decide, How does one live when nothing is sure? The Successor seamlessly blends dream and reality, legendary past, and contemporary history, and proves again that Kadare stands alongside Marquez, Canetti, and Auster.

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ISBN:
9781559708470
Author:
Kadare, Ismail
Publisher:
Arcade Publishing
Translator:
Papavrami, Tedi
Translator:
Bellos, David
Subject:
Mystery & Detective - General
Copyright:
2008
Publication Date:
March 2008
Binding:
Paperback
Language:
English
Pages:
207
Dimensions:
8.30x5.76x.62 in. .55 lbs.
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