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When the new Egyptian Pharaoh decrees that he does not want a pyramid built in his honour his advisers are aghast. So the Pharaoh agrees to the construction of a pyramid colossal beyond imagining, an edifice that crushes dozens of people as each block is added and which inexorably drains the lifeblood from the country.

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[Kadare] chronicled the dark years of dictatorship in masterpieces such as The Pyramid * Independent *
A haunting sense of time moving backwards and forwards like a train at a terminus, an authentic sense of adventure, and an extraordinary facility with metaphor take over… Kadare's new novel is mesmerising. * Sydney Morning Herald *
A vast, deep, obsessive parable. Like every parable, its fundamental significance transcends its apparent meaning * Figaro *
A masterpiece... A hauntingly beautiful parable woven from the fabric of history yet timeless in its reach * San Francisco Chronicle Book Review *
In the end, this book - which does not have (or need) a conventional plot, protagonist or conflict - adds up to a haunting meditation on the matter-of-fact brutality of political despotism, the harshness of life among the humble and powerless, and the vastness, ubiquity and stonelike permanence of death, which treats all humanity as equals. * New York Times *

The Pyramid

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    A Paperback / softback by Ismail Kadare, Barbara Bray

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      Publisher Penguin Random House Group
      Imprint Vintage Classics
      Published 5 September 2013
      ISBN-13 9780099560920
      978-0099560920
      ISBN-10 0099560925
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      Historical Fiction

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      When the new Egyptian Pharaoh decrees that he does not want a pyramid built in his honour his advisers are aghast. So the Pharaoh agrees to the construction of a pyramid colossal beyond imagining, an edifice that crushes dozens of people as each block is added and which inexorably drains the lifeblood from the country.

      Trade Review
      [Kadare] chronicled the dark years of dictatorship in masterpieces such as The Pyramid * Independent *
      A haunting sense of time moving backwards and forwards like a train at a terminus, an authentic sense of adventure, and an extraordinary facility with metaphor take over… Kadare's new novel is mesmerising. * Sydney Morning Herald *
      A vast, deep, obsessive parable. Like every parable, its fundamental significance transcends its apparent meaning * Figaro *
      A masterpiece... A hauntingly beautiful parable woven from the fabric of history yet timeless in its reach * San Francisco Chronicle Book Review *
      In the end, this book - which does not have (or need) a conventional plot, protagonist or conflict - adds up to a haunting meditation on the matter-of-fact brutality of political despotism, the harshness of life among the humble and powerless, and the vastness, ubiquity and stonelike permanence of death, which treats all humanity as equals. * New York Times *

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