The story is set in the anonymous, sprawling expanse of the Ottoman-like . The protagonist, Mark-Alem, is a young scion of a once-powerful, now-fallen noble family. He is assigned to the Tabir Sarrail—the Palace of Dreams.
Set in an intentionally vague era of the , the novel follows Mark-Alem , a young man from the powerful Quprili family, as he begins a career at the Tabir Sarrail —the Palace of Dreams. the palace of dreams pdf
Kadare wrote this while living under the Enver Hoxha regime in Albania. By setting the story in the Ottoman past, he bypassed censors (at least temporarily) to critique the absolute control of the modern state. The Palace represents the ultimate invasion of privacy: the colonization of the human mind. 2. The Weight of History and Lineage The story is set in the anonymous, sprawling