The Pyramid (Albanian: Piramida) is a 1992 novel written by Ismail Kadare.

[2] It was serialized in January 1991 in several issues of the new opposition newspaper Democratic Renaissance.

[3] After the establishment of pluralism and democracy in Albania, it was completed and published in Tirana and Paris.

It is the tale of the conception and construction of the Great Pyramid of Giza by Cheops, but also of absolute political power.

[3] The New York Times picked up on the significance of The Pyramid: "For the pyramid, viewed by his subjects as an abiding symbol of his total and incontestable power, comes to be seen by him as a personal memento mori, a constant and paralyzing reminder that his brief life will give way to an eternal entombment in stone.