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A Dictator Calls

Ismail Kadare
3.10/5 (453 ratings)
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n 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, winner of the inaugural International Booker Prize, 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.

A Dictator Calls was longlisted for the International Booker Prize 2024, announced on March 11 2024.
Format:
Paperback
Pages:
256 pages
Publication:
2023
Publisher:
Counterpoint Press
Edition:
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
1640096086
ISBN13:
9781640096080
kindle Asin:
B0BQLJYBFN

A Dictator Calls

Ismail Kadare
3.10/5 (453 ratings)
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n 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, winner of the inaugural International Booker Prize, 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.

A Dictator Calls was longlisted for the International Booker Prize 2024, announced on March 11 2024.
Format:
Paperback
Pages:
256 pages
Publication:
2023
Publisher:
Counterpoint Press
Edition:
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
1640096086
ISBN13:
9781640096080
kindle Asin:
B0BQLJYBFN

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