| Midnight in the Century Contributor(s): Serge, Victor (Author), Greeman, Richard (Translator), Greeman, Richard (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 1590177703 ISBN-13: 9781590177709 Publisher: New York Review of Books OUR PRICE: $15.26 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 2014 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Historical - General - Fiction | War & Military |
| Dewey: 843.912 |
| LCCN: 2014013726 |
| Series: Nyrb Classics |
| Physical Information: 0.5" H x 5.2" W x 8.7" (0.50 lbs) 240 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In 1933, Victor Serge was arrested by Stalin's police, interrogated, and held in solitary confinement for more than eighty days. Released, he spent two years in exile in remote Orenburg. These experiences were the inspiration for Midnight in the Century, Serge's searching novel about revolutionaries living in the shadow of Stalin's betrayal of the revolution. Among the exiles gathered in the town of Chenor, or Black-Waters, are the granite-faced Old Bolshevik Ryzhik, stoic yet gentle Varvara, and Rodion, a young, self-educated worker who is trying to make sense of the world and history. They struggle in the unlikely company of Russian Orthodox Old Believers who are also suffering for their faith. Against unbelievable odds, the young Rodion will escape captivity and find a new life in the wild. Surviving the dark winter night of the soul, he rediscovers the only real, and most radical, form of resistance: hope. |