Sold out
More about the book
In 1869, an exiled Russian novelist returns to St Petersburg to collect the effects of his dead stepson, Pavel. But the stepson's incriminating papers have been found by the Tsarist police and the novelist finds himself drawn into an underworld of suspicion, revolution and danger.
Book purchase
The Master of Petersburg, J. M. Coetzee
- Language
- Released
- 1999
- product-detail.submit-box.info.binding
- (Paperback)
We’ll email you as soon as we track it down.
Payment methods
We’re missing your review here.
- Title
- The Master of Petersburg
- Language
- English
- Authors
- J. M. Coetzee
- Publisher
- Minerva
- Released
- 1999
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 250
- ISBN10
- 0749396326
- ISBN13
- 9780749396329
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Historical Fiction, Death, Russia, Revenge, Mourning, Nobel prize, Guilt, Revolution, South Africa, Uncertainty, Fathers and Sons, South African Literature
- Original title
- The master of Petersburg
- Rating
- 3.6 out of 5
- Description
- In 1869, an exiled Russian novelist returns to St Petersburg to collect the effects of his dead stepson, Pavel. But the stepson's incriminating papers have been found by the Tsarist police and the novelist finds himself drawn into an underworld of suspicion, revolution and danger.