At the heart of the Sultan's vast but fragile empire stands the mysterious Palace of Dreams: the most secret and powerful Ministry ever invented. Its task is to scour every town, village and hamlet to collect the citizens' dreams, then to sift, sort and classify them, and ultimately to interpret them, in order to identify the "master-dreams" that will provide the clues to the Empire's destinies and those of its Monarch. An entire nation's consciousness is thus tapped into and meticulously laid bare in the form of images and symbols of the dreaming mind.
Kadare's Palace of Dreams stands as the symbol of the thought-police who have, through history, been the most effective instruments of oppression at the service of dictators.
- ISBN10 1860464106
- ISBN13 9781860464102
- Publish Date 31 August 2001 (first published 1 February 1993)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 17 September 2008
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Vintage Publishing
- Imprint The Harvill Press
- Format Paperback
- Pages 192
- Language English