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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.

Albanian European Parliament official Mr. Y and his lover Rowena were killed in a traffic accident. The surviving taxi driver was in shock and vague about the cause of the accident. He only repeatedly said that he was frightened when he saw the two passengers "trying to kiss" in the rearview mirror. The special identity of the victim and the vague testimonies of the survivors attracted the intervention of the security agencies of many Eastern European countries. However, the investigation was fruitless and they withdrew one after another. In the end, a persevering investigator uncovered the hidden story behind the traffic accident by analyzing the witness testimony, the two people's notes and the memories of Rowena's close friends.

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.