The Stalin Epigram - Hardcover

Littell, Robert

 
9780715639030: The Stalin Epigram
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 071563903X ISBN 13: 9780715639030
Verlag: Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd, 2010

Críticas

'A wonderful and compelling read about power, poetry, love, literature, terror and Russia' - Simon Sebag Montefiore. 'Profoundly informed, incredibly suspenseful and heartbreaking' - Martin Cruz Smith. 'Some novels bring history vividly, entertainingly and thrillingly to life - this is one of them. You read "The Stalin Epigram" and say to yourself, So that's what it was like"' - Ronan Bennett. '[This] may be his finest novel... A timeless story of courage and truth confronting the madness of absolute power. It's a brilliant work, always readable, sometimes funny and often heartbreaking. There are many books about Stalin's terror, but there cannot be many that bring its truths more vividly, painfully to life' - Washington Post. 'This is a masterful novel, bruising and sometimes joyous, a reminder of what was and what could be again. Compelling from start to finish, it's an important book, perhaps Littell's best, which is saying a lot' - Olen Steinhauer. 'Wonderful - Littell is unflinching in his portrayal of Osip's tragic arc, bringing a troubled era of Russian history to rich, magnificent life' - Publishers Weekly.

Reseña del editor

Moscow, 1934. As thousands of peasant farmers starve under Stalin's regime of collectivisation, Osip Mandelstam, perhaps the greatest Russian poet of the twentieth century, defies the Kremlin with a few short, audacious lines of verse - a searing indictment of Stalin secretly recited to a handful of friends and fellow artists. When a transcript of the work falls into the hands of the secret police, the poet is taken from his home to Lubyanka prison under accusations of counter-revolutionary activities that carry the highest penalty, and his fate - as well as the fates of those close to him - is cast into bleak uncertainty. A fictional portrait based on a riveting historical episode, "The Stalin Epigram" is narrated in turn by Mandelstam himself, his devoted wife, and his great friends the poets Boris Pasternak and Anna Akhmatova, amongst other vividly imagined characters. A gripping and memorable achievement of rigorous research and extraordinary empathy, bestselling author Robert Littell's latest novel is a compelling testament to human courage and endurance.

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Verlag
Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd
Erscheinungsdatum
2010
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
071563903X
ISBN 13 
9780715639030
Einband
Tapa dura
Anzahl der Seiten
304
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