The Pyramid by Ismail Kadare

The Pyramid

Ismail Kadare with David Bellos (Translator)

161 pages first pub 1992 (editions)

fiction historical challenging dark reflective slow-paced
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Egypt in the twenty-sixth century BC. The young pharaoh Cheops wants to forgo the construction of a pyramid in his honor, but his court sages hasten to persuade him otherwise. The pyramid, they tell him, is not a tomb but a paradox, designed to ap...

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