Agamemnon’s Daughter: A Novella and Stories - Ismail Kadare

Written by Ismail Kadare
Read by Clinton Wade, Allan Robertson, Jeremy Arthur, Nicholas Techosky
Format: M4B
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

In this spellbinding novel, written in Albania and smuggled into France a few pages at a time in the 1980s, Ismail Kadare denounces with rare force the machinery of a dictatorial regime, drawing us back to the ancient roots of tyranny in Western Civilization. During the waning years of Communism, a young worker for the Albanian state-controlled media agency narrates the story of his ill-fated love for the daughter of a high-ranking official. When he witness the ghostly image of Agamemnon-the Ancient Greek king who sacrificed his own daughter for reasons of State-on the reviewing stand during a May Day celebration, he begins to suspect the full catastrophe of his devotion. Also included are “The Blinding Order”, a parable of the Ottoman Empire about the uses of terror in authoritarian regimes, and “The Great Wall”, a chilling duet between a Chinese official and a soldier in the invading army of the Tamerlane.

Length: 4 hrs and 44 mins
Release date: 03-21-14