A surreal, chilling tale of rebellion and tyranny in the Ottoman Empire, by the winner of the Man Booker International Prize.
Ismail Kadare is Albania's best-known novelist and poet. Translations of his novels have appeared in more than forty countries. He was awarded the inaugural Man Booker International Prize in 2005, and the Jerusalem Prize in 2015.
The narrative unfurls with the shifting intensity of a dream,
enriched by unsettlingly surreal details... It is a brilliant
examination of the way that authoritarian structures operate: Kafka
on a grander political scale.
*Sunday Times*
Although on the surface this is a deeply compelling historical
novel, its scope is wider. At heart, what Kadare seeks to
demonstrate is the terrible nature of a world in which every human
element is suborned to the state... Kadare well deserves his
growing European audience.
*Daily Telegraph*
An extraordinary and complex novel whose time has come...40 years
after its initial publication [in Albanian]
*Herald*
In John Hodgson’s lucid translation, The Traitor’s Niche is
absorbing from start to finish. Kadare’s allegorical burlesque has
rarely been so trenchant.
*Spectator*
The novel is a hymn to language, something that, as Ottoman
bureaucrats intent on obliterating it instinctively know, and as
Kadare’s novels prove, is not easily silenced
*Daily Mail*
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