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The Successor
 

The Successor

by Ismail Kadare

A new novel from the acclaimed winner of the inaugural Man Booker International Prize for achievement in fiction.

The Successor is a powerful political novel based on the sudden, mysterious death of the man who had been handpicked to succeed the hated Albanian dictator Enver Hoxha.

The man who died was Mehmet Shehu, the presumed heir to the ailing dictator. The world was so... (read more)

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Brian D
  • Rated 4 stars

“In between reading The Idiot and the daunting (in size) War and Peace I pulled out The Successor by Kadare and gave it a go. It's a wonderful follow-up to the other book of his, Agamemnon's Daughter.

The Successor is a murder mystery based on the true-life death of Mehmet Shehu, the designated successor to Albanian dictator Enver Hoxha in 1981. Told using different perspectives from the family of the successor, the guide, the architect, the Dr who performed the autopsy, even, the...”

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  • Rated 3.666667 stars
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  • Rated 4.5 stars
  

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  • Fermina D

    fermina d said:

    “yep.One of our best writter. a 'MUST read' !”

    posted Saturday, January 5 2008
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