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The mysterious palace of dreams stands at the heart of a vast empire. Inside, workers sift, sort, and interpret the dreams the empire’s citizens. They search out Master-Dreams that will provide clues to the destiny of the empire and its Sultan.
Mark-Alem, scion of a noble family that has provided viziers to the Sultan from time immemorial, and whose power the Sultan distrusts, is recruited into the palace of Creams at the humblest level. He immediately feels the terrible pressure that drives his coworkers, the dread of overlooking a crucial dream whose capture and interpretation might avert political disaster.
But he rapidly rises through the hierarchy only barely finding his bearings in one section of the Palace’s labyrinthine passages that represent the entire empire’s consciousness laid bare before he is promoted to another. And the pressure only increases as he becomes familiar with the fates of subversive dreamers and personally responsible for the sort of dreams that might ruin an entire family. A family like his own.
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Ismail Kadare is the winner of the inaugural Man Booker International Prize, and is Albania's best-known poet and novelist. He is acclaimed worldwide as one of the most important writers of our time. Translations of his novels have been published in more than forty countries. He divides his time between Paris, France, and Tirana, Albania.
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"Kadare's most daring novel, one of the most complete visions of totalitarianism ever committed to paper." —Jean-Christophe Castelli, Vanity Fair
"As an allegory of power, The Palace of Dreams is flawless. . . . In its terse geometry, Kadare has introduced a historical and intensely human sadness." —Los Angeles Times
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- PublisherArcade
- Publication date2014
- ISBN 10 1628723238
- ISBN 13 9781628723236
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages208
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