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Set in 1869, when Dostoevsky was summoned from Germany to St Petersburg by the sudden death of his stepson, this novel is at once a compelling mystery steeped in the atmosphere of pre-revolutionary Russia and a brilliant and courageous mediation on authority and rebellion, art and imagination. Dostoevsky is seen obsessively following his stepson's ghost, trying to ascertain whether he was a suicide or a murder victim and whether he loved or despised his stepfather
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The master of Petersburg, J. M. Coetzee
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- Released
- 1994
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- Language
- English
- Authors
- J. M. Coetzee
- Publisher
- Secker and Warburg
- Released
- 1994
- Format
- Hardcover
- ISBN10
- 0436201933
- ISBN13
- 9780436201936
- 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
- Set in 1869, when Dostoevsky was summoned from Germany to St Petersburg by the sudden death of his stepson, this novel is at once a compelling mystery steeped in the atmosphere of pre-revolutionary Russia and a brilliant and courageous mediation on authority and rebellion, art and imagination. Dostoevsky is seen obsessively following his stepson's ghost, trying to ascertain whether he was a suicide or a murder victim and whether he loved or despised his stepfather