Synopses & Reviews
'The story I am about to tell, a story born in doubt and perplexity, has only the misfortune (some call it the fortune) of being true.'
The setting is Russia at the time of the Revolution. Danilo Kis tells a haunting story that centres round seven Jews from different countries. Each lives for the Revolution and each is destroyed by it.
Kis writes with a fierceness and lyricism that is matched throughout by the inventiveness and the extraordinary quality of his prose.
Table of Contents
The knife with the rosewood handle.--The sow that eats her farrow.--The mechanical lions.--The magic card dealing.--A tomb for Boris Davidovich.--Dogs and books.--The short biography of A. A. Darmolatov.