A Book of Falsehoods
Between Three Plagues Volume 3
$45.41
- Paperback
496 pages
- Release Date
15 February 2023
Summary
*A Financial Times Fiction in Translation Book of the Year 2022*
The third part in an epic historical trilogy - The Estonian answer to Wolf Hall - by the nation’s greatest modern writer
- A ship from Rostock arrives in Tallinn loaded with printed copies of Balthasar Russow’s Chronicle - the culmination of our hero’s life’s work. But though it is an instant success, as it was in Rostock and numerous German cities, not everyone is …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780857055149 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0857055143 |
| Author: | Jaan Kross, Merike Lepasaar Beecher |
| Publisher: | Quercus Publishing |
| Imprint: | MacLehose Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 496 |
| Release Date: | 15 February 2023 |
| Weight: | 600g |
| Dimensions: | 232mm x 152mm x 40mm |
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He’s a marvellous novelist - his scope and depth make him a world writer - and they should just hurry up and give him the Nobel.
He deserved a Nobel prize and would probably have got it had he written in any other language but Estonian. - Guardian.He’s almost alone in writing in the older European tradition of the large-scale historical novel. I’d argue that Kross is heir to the ‘great’ Russo-European 19th century novelists; his fiction has Tolstoyan sweep. On reading him, moreover, we rediscover that Estonia was always resolutely in Europe and not some obscure outpost this side of the Urals.No stranger to oppression himself, Kross writes about it with a poignancy devoid of anger.About The Author
Jaan Kross
Jaan Kross is Estonia’s best-known and most widely translated author. He was born in Tallinn in 1920 and lived much of his life under either Soviet or German occupation. He won countless awards for his writing, including The National Cultural Award, The Amnesty International Golden Flame and the Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger. He died in 2007.
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