Book 2011

The Palace of Dreams

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Publisher: Vintage Digital
Published: 2011

Totalitarianism
Fiction
Balkan peninsula, fiction
Fiction, political
Fiction, general
Criticism and interpretation

At the heart of the Sultan's vast empire stands the mysterious Palace of Dreams. Inside, the dreams of every citizen are collected, sorted and interpreted in order to identify the 'master-dreams' that will provide the clues to the Empire's destiny and that of its Monarch. An entire nation's consciousness is thus meticulously laid bare and at the mercy of its government...

The Palace of Dreams is Kadare's macabre vision of tyranny and oppression, and was banned upon publication in Albania in 1981.