Dr Chizhevsky's Chandelier
The Decline of the USSR and other Heresies of the Twentieth Century
$31.56
- Paperback
250 pages
- Release Date
16 December 2025
Summary
A work of experimental nonfiction that spotlights the so-called Undesirables of recent history, forced into martyrdom and infamy.
Daniel Elkind’s hybrid-genre debut, Chizhevsky’s Chandelier is a nonfiction experiment that tells the story of A.L. Chizhevsky, the inventor and father of the field of heliobiology, who - like his hero Galileo - was punished for daring to suggest that human history revolved around the sun.
This expansive narrative of historical reckoning st…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781915672797 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1915672791 |
| Author: | Dan Elkind |
| Publisher: | Watkins Media Limited |
| Imprint: | Repeater Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 250 |
| Release Date: | 16 December 2025 |
| Weight: | 369g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 130mm |
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About The Author
Dan Elkind
Daniel Elkind was born in Moscow in 1984. He is the author of Theory and Failure- Some Latter-Day Curse Tablets and Reflections on the Nature of the League. His work has appeared in Lapham’s Quarterly, the LA Review of Books, the Believer, Public Domain Review, and elsewhere. A former New Yorker, he is now based in Atlanta.
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