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Petersburg (New ed.)

Bely, AndreiElsworth, John(Translated by)
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After enlisting in a revolutionary terrorist organization, university student Nikolai Apollonovich Ableukhov is entrusted with a highly dangerous mission: to plant a bomb and assassinate a major government figure.

But the real central character of the novel is the city of Petersburg at the beginning of the twentieth century, caught in the grip of political agitation and social unrest.

Intertwining the worlds of history and myth, and parading a cast of unforgettable characters, Petersburg is a story of apocalypse and redemption played out through family dysfunction, conspiracy and murder.

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Product Details
Pushkin Press
1908968095 / 9781908968098
eBook (EPUB)
10/09/2010
England
English
570 pages
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