In the walls of Constantinople there is a niche where traitors, rebellious subjects and failed generals have their severed heads displayed - the niche of shame. And the vast Ottoman Empire does not lack candidates: new heads are constantly rolling. Tundj Hata is the envoy whose task it is to bring them to the capital. Now he is on his way from distant Albania with Ali Pasha's head in a leather bag filled with snow - Ali Pasha, friend of Napoleon and Lord Byron, who dreamed of freeing his country from the rule of the great power.
The Niche in the Wall is a story about power, freedom and submission. With the irreverence of the picaresque novel and the simplicity of legend, it confronts totalitarian regimes of all times.
In Swedish translation by Marianne Eyre.

ISMAIL KADARE [b. 1936] is an Albanian writer with French citizenship. He achieved his international breakthrough with his debut The General of the Dead Army [1963] and his novels are now translated into over thirty languages. Prizes he has received include the Prix Mondial Cino Del Duca 1992; Man Booker International Prize 2005 and the Prince of Asturias Award 2009.

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Media type: Book
Binding type: Paperback
Author: Ismail Kadare
Translator: Marianne Eyre
Publisher: Modernista
Language: Swedish
Extent: 183 pages
Dimensions (wxhxd): 135x210x12 mm
Weight: 286 grams
Illustrated: No
Series: Modernista classics

Barcode: 9789178936595
SKU: 747909