A People without a Past
Between Three Plagues Volume 2
$26.55
- Paperback
432 pages
- Release Date
13 March 2018
Summary
The second part in an epic historical trilogy - The Estonian answer to Wolf Hall - by the nation’s greatest modern writer
The year is 1563, and by any account Balthasar Russow can be said to have risen in the world. Fresh from his studies in the German town of Stetten, he has assumed the role as pastor of Tallinn’s Holy Ghost Church. Moreover, he is betrothed to a maiden of the town - much to the chagrin of her father, who has no wish to welcome peasant stock…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781784299545 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1784299545 |
| Author: | Jaan Kross |
| Publisher: | Quercus Publishing |
| Imprint: | MacLehose Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 432 |
| Release Date: | 13 March 2018 |
| Weight: | 300g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 128mm x 30mm |
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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’s a marvellous novelist - his scope and depth make him a world writer - and they should just hurry up and give him the Nobel. - Doris Lessing
He deserved a Nobel prize and would probably have got it had he written in any other language but Estonian. - GuardianHe’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. - Fiona SampsonNo stranger to oppression himself, Kross writes about it with a poignancy devoid of anger. - Adam ZamoyskiAbout 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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