The Palace of Dreams
Categories: Literature & Fiction
Ismail Kadare's novel about a young man who works in a vast Ottoman ministry that collects and interprets the empire's dreams to root out threats to the state.
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- Margaret Atwood: “This Albanian novelist was one of the major successors of Orwell and Kafka, and The Palace Of Dreams is a nightmarish portrait of the horrific control – including thought control – exerted by totalitarian regimes, whether of right or of left. Pertinent in our times.”