- Fiction, Great Pyramid (Egypt), History, Fiction, historical
When the new Egyptian Pharaoh decrees that he does not want a pyramid built in his honour his advisers are aghast. It is their firm belief that peace and prosperity only make the people more difficult to control – they must be kept under the whip.
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Grave, bleak, epic and classical in form.
- gravecomic
- warmbleak
- intimateepic
- classical in formformally daring
- unpretentiousprestige
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About the book
- Author
- Ismail Kadare
- First published
- 1992
- Pages
- 158
- Publisher
- Çabej MÇM, Arcade Publishing, Vintage Books
- Editions
- 9
- Language
- alb, French, English
- ISBN
- 9782253135906
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