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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.

Legend has it that there was an agency in the Ottoman Empire, founded by the ruling Sultan himself. It was in charge of sleep and dreams. It specifically collected people's dreams, classified, screened, analyzed, reviewed and processed them. Once any signs of a threat to the monarchy were found, all measures were immediately taken to suppress them. This institution is known as the "Dream Palace". The scary thing about the Dream Palace lies in its absurdity, its arbitrariness, the most blindness, and the most deadly. For the sake of power and domination, some dreams can even be created. The story begins when a young man from a prominent family, Mark Alem, enters the Dream Palace. His family has produced five Albanian prime ministers, as well as countless generals and important ministers. Because of the importance of the Dream Palace, he was assigned to work in the Dream Palace, and directly entered the important screening department, and was soon transferred to the analysis department. He had to deal with all kinds of dreams every day, and he actually read the same dream twice: in a wasteland beside the bridge, among the garbage and waste, there was a strange musical instrument playing automatically, and a bull, who was not sure if it was driven crazy by the music, stood beside the bridge and roared. As a result, his handling of this dream almost destroyed his family, but he was unexpectedly promoted and became the director of the Dream Palace.

The story revolves around a special traditional custom in Albania's past. According to the code of law that governs the northern plateau region of Albania, if a person is killed, his family must avenge him with blood for blood. The protagonist Gioago's brother was killed by his enemy. He avenged his brother and successfully killed his enemy on March 17. From then on his life left him and he could not escape his fate. Before being chased by the family of the deceased, he got a thirty-day truce agreement, so his April was broken into two parts. Before April 17, it was safe and "white", and then it was desperate and "black." Intertwined with Jorge's fate is a newlywed couple. They come from Tirana, the capital of Albania, and are full of yearning for plateau culture. The bride Diana was uncontrollably attracted to Giorgi, whom she had only met once, and even left her newlywed husband to find this mysterious young man. At the same time, Giorgi also wanted to meet Diana again before April turned black. The novel was adapted into the movie "Behind the Sun", which was released in 2012.

This book tells the story of an Italian general who went to Albania to search for the remains of fallen soldiers. It connects various stories during the war through the process of the general digging the graves of fallen soldiers and searching for the remains. It reflects the brutality of the war and the resulting tragedies, as well as the changes in the mentality of all participants in the war, reproduces the complex human nature in the war, and displays the historical picture and national spiritual history of Albania.

With the magical atmosphere of García Márquez, the contrast of light and weight like Milan Kundera, and the keen insight of Kafka, this is the representative work of Kadare, one of the writers with high aspirations for winning the Nobel Prize. The author won the first Booker International Prize for Literature, the Prince of Asturias Prize, and the Jerusalem Prize for Literature. Who is to say that what we see with our own eyes has not been distorted? Who is to say that everything depicted here is not the essence of things? The Sultan of the Ottoman Empire founded the Dream Palace, which was in charge of sleep and dreams. It specifically collected people's dreams, classified, screened, analyzed, reviewed and processed them. Once any signs of a threat to the monarchy were found, all measures were immediately taken to suppress them. The story begins when a young man from a prominent family, Mark Alem, enters the Dream Palace. His family has produced five Albanian prime ministers, as well as countless generals and important ministers. Because of the importance of the Dream Palace, he was assigned to work in it by his high-ranking uncle, and directly entered the important screening department, and was soon transferred to the analysis department. He deals with all kinds of dreams every day. One day, he encountered the same dream twice. As a result, his handling of the dream changed the fate of him and his family drastically.