Page 21 of 2007 Fall Winter by Arcade Publishing

winner of the inaugural man booker international prize ismail kadare is according to the wall street journal one of the most compelling novelists writing in any language on the night of december 13 1981 the man who was purported to take power in albania at the death of the dictator enver hoxha is shot dead sometime between midnight and early morning the burning question was he murdered or did he commit suicide and in either case why the state maintains he died by his own hand but the rest of the world wonders rumors fly guilt festers and as the tension mounts the successor s daughter his architect and the minister of the interior all tell their versions of the event and its aftermath until finally from the other side the successor himself speaks all too familiar with the shadow of tyranny kadare here draws us into a nightmarish world controlled by rules no one understands blending dream and reality to produce a mystery that seduces and surprises right up until the last page marke ti ng promotion web marketing like the very best books the successor demands that ultimate tribute from the audience a second reading los angeles times book review kadare stands with orwell kafka kundera and solzhenitsyn publishers weekly as a major chronicler of oppression kadare is patently a world-class novelist boston globe · a new york times notable book of the year a 2006 financial times best of fiction pick a 2005 christianity today ten best books pick · published in more than 40 countries around the world kadare is increasingly viewed as one of the most important writers of the past 50 years winning the first man booker international prize in june 2005 from a shortlist that included five nobel laureates · one of the great storytellers of our time kadare has rightly been compared to bolaño borges camus dostoyevsky gogol ionesco kafka koestler kundera márquez orwell saramago simenon and solzhenitsyn · hardcover isbn 1-55970-773-9 praise for ismail kadare and the successor an extraordinary portrait of tyranny among the great writers of modern times and kadare is one of them only kafka has new york times explored such territory so disturbingly the successor a novel sophie bassouls sygma ismail kadare translated from the french of tedi papavrami by david bellos 1-55970-847-6 978-1-55970-847-0 $13.99 ncr · fiction · paperback 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 · 216 pages · rights us open market arcade march ismail kadare is the author of over a dozen novels and several collections of stories he lives in paris and tirana 125

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