A Dictator Calls

by Ismail Kadare

Book Overview

Longlisted for the International Booker Prize
The Wall Street Journal, A Best Book of the Year

Using a sophisticated and literary version of the ever-popular game of telephone to examine the relationship of writers with tyranny, Ismail Kadare reflects on three particular minutes in a long moment of time when the dark shadow of Joseph Stalin passed over the world

In June 1934, Stalin allegedly called Boris Pasternak and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1640096086
• ISBN13: 9781640096080
• Release Date: September 2023
• Publisher: Counterpoint LLC
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.0" x 8.0"