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A DICTATOR CALLS - ISMAIL KADARE GEBUNDEN

'Comrade Stalin wishes to speak with you.'A fascinating exploration of the relationship between
writers and tyranny  from the winner of the first Man Booker International Prize. In 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 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. The telling
brings to light uncanny parallels with Kadare's experience writing under dictatorship  when he
received an unexpected phone call of his own. Translated from the Albanian by John Hodgson
'Kadare is one of Europe's most consistently interesting and powerful contemporary novelists  a
writer whose stark  memorable prose imprints itself on the reader's consciousness.' Los Angeles
Times

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