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ATDrake · 10-30-2017, 03:36 AM

Bargain @ $1.99 from Arcade Publishing in Canada & the US (couponable/VIP-eligible @Kobo, price should be the same at all the other stores)

The Successor by Albanian author Ismail Kadaré (Wikipedia), who was apparently recipient of the inaugural Man Booker International Prize, among other awards. This is a dramatized historical political novel with mystery and psychological thriller elements based on the real life suspicious death of a successor to an Albanian dictator, which is apparently a “write what you know” situation at second hand. According to its Wikipedia entry, this novel is the 2nd part of a diptych with a self-contained tie-in novella, the two of which together are considered among his best works.

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. Did he commit suicide or was he murdered? That is the burning question. The man who died by his own hand, or another’s, was Mehmet Shehu, the presumed heir to the ailing dictator. So sure was the world that he was next in line, he was known as The Successor.

And then, shortly before Shehu was to assume power, he was found dead. The Successor is simultaneously a mystery novel, a historical novel-based on actual events and buttressed by the author’s private conversations with the son of the real-life Mehmet Shehu, and a psychological novel. How do you live when nothing is sure?

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ATDrake Wizzard Posts: 11,517 Karma: 33048258 Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Roundworld Device: Kindle 2 International, Sony PRS-T1, BlackBerry PlayBook, Acer Iconia	Bargain @ $1.99 from Arcade Publishing in Canada & the US (couponable/VIP-eligible @Kobo, price should be the same at all the other stores) The Successor by Albanian author Ismail Kadaré (Wikipedia), who was apparently recipient of the inaugural Man Booker International Prize, among other awards. This is a dramatized historical political novel with mystery and psychological thriller elements based on the real life suspicious death of a successor to an Albanian dictator, which is apparently a “write what you know” situation at second hand. According to its Wikipedia entry, this novel is the 2nd part of a diptych with a self-contained tie-in novella, the two of which together are considered among his best works. 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. Did he commit suicide or was he murdered? That is the burning question. The man who died by his own hand, or another’s, was Mehmet Shehu, the presumed heir to the ailing dictator. So sure was the world that he was next in line, he was known as The Successor. And then, shortly before Shehu was to assume power, he was found dead. The Successor is simultaneously a mystery novel, a historical novel-based on actual events and buttressed by the author’s private conversations with the son of the real-life Mehmet Shehu, and a psychological novel. How do you live when nothing is sure? Last edited by ATDrake; 10-30-2017 at 04:30 AM.