Agamemnon's Daughter

Sacrificed to further a father's blood-soaked career; sacrificed for the common good; sacrificed, then forgotten.

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.

• | Author: Ismail Kadare, David Bellos
• | Publisher: Canongate Books
• | Publication Date: Feb 07, 2008
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• | Language: eng
• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-13: 9781841959788
• | ISBN-10: 1841959782