The Palace of Dreams

Name: The Palace of Dreams
Author: Ismail Kadare

by Ismail Kadare

Dystopian novel about state surveillance through a department interpreting official dreams

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Ismail Kadare

Albanian novelist who is listed here as a bridge between Eastern and Western literary traditions. His novels drawing on Albanian oral epic and Greek tragedy, such as The General of the Dead Army and The Palace of Dreams, are major works of world literature.

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