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The Courilof Affair

The Courilof Affair

Ir ne N mirovsky / Sandra Smith

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Penguin Random House UK
Año de edición:
2008
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Ficción clásica
ISBN:
9780099493983
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From the author of the bestselling Suite Fran aise.In 1903 L on M - the son of two Russian revolutionaries - is given the responsibility of ’liquidating’ Valerian Alexandrovitch Courilof the notoriously brutal and cold-blooded Russian Minister of Education by the Revolutionary Committee. The assassination he is told must take place in public and be carried out in the most grandiose manner possible in order to strike the imagination of the people. Posing as his newly appointed personal physician L on M takes up residence with Courilof in his summer house in the Iles and awaits instructions. But over the course of his stay he is made privy to the inner world of the man he must kill - his failing health his troubled domestic situation and most importantly the tyrannical grip that the Czar himself holds over all his Ministers forcing them to obey him or suffer the most deadly punishments. Set during a period of radical upheaval in European history The Courliof Affair is an unsparing observation of human motives and the abuses of power an elegy to a lost world and an unflinchingly topical cautionary tale.

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