Book · 1981 · Fiction

Palace of Dreams

Name: Palace of Dreams
Author: Ismail Kadare

Arcade · 208 pages

★ 6.3 editorial score

Clerks in an Ottoman ministry collect the dreams of every subject and sift them for the one that foretells the empire's fate. Albania's dictatorship banned it within months, after twenty thousand copies sold.

Medium

Novel

Subject

Bureaucracy Political power Totalitarianism

Time

1981

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