Agamemnon's Daughter
About This Novel
This book contains three novellas, namely "The Great Wall", "The Blinding Edict" and "Agamemnon's Daughter". This book discusses political rule in different eras. "The Great Wall" revolves around a Ming Dynasty official and a Mongolian soldier who are facing each other on both sides of the Great Wall. Timur, who eventually conquered the Ottoman Empire, was unable to break through the Ming Dynasty's weak defense line. The Great Wall is used as a watershed in the article to record the exchanges between civilization and barbarism between different regions. The Great Wall has also become an inscription that witnesses death. The background of "The Blinding Edict" is the reforms of the Ottoman Turkish Empire in the 19th century. It describes the sad fate of an Albanian family under imperial politics and details the operation mode of the autocratic government. "Agamemnon's Daughter" reproduces the real Albania in the 1980s. With the help of two Greek myths, it shows the loss of love between the protagonist and the daughter of a high official in real life and the cruelty of the state machine, and discusses the foundation of Western cultural traditions. The plot of the whole book is cyclical, as exquisite and unique as a maze. It is a black fable full of absurdity and metaphors.
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