The Ropewalker
Between Three Plagues Volume I
$43.09
- Paperback
544 pages
- Release Date
12 March 2018
Summary
The first part in an epic historical trilogy - The Estonian answer to WOLF HALL - by the nation’s greatest modern writer.
Jaan Kross’s trilogy dramatises the life of the renowned Livonian Chronicler Balthasar Russow, whose greatest work described the effects of the Livonian War on the peasantry of what is now Estonia. Like Hilary Mantel’s Thomas Cromwell, Russow is a diamond in the rough, a thoroughly modern man in an Early Modern world, rising from humble origins to greatness through…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781784299781 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1784299782 |
| Author: | Jaan Kross, Merike Lepasaar Beecher |
| Publisher: | Quercus Publishing |
| Imprint: | MacLehose Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 544 |
| Release Date: | 12 March 2018 |
| Weight: | 373g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 32mm |
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He deserved a Nobel prize and would probably have got it had he written in any other language but Estonian– Neil Taylor , Guardian.
He deserved a Nobel prize and would probably have got it had he written in any other language but Estonian - Guardian.
He’s a marvellous novelist - his scope and depth make him a world writer - and they should just hurry up and give him the Nobel - Doris Lessing.He’s almost alone in writing in the older European tradition of the large-scale historical novel. I’d argue that Kross is heir to the ‘great’ Russo-European 19th century novelists; his fiction has Tolstoyan sweep. On reading him, moreover, we rediscover that Estonia was always resolutely in Europe and not some obscure outpost this side of the Urals - Fiona Sampson.No stranger to oppression himself, Kross writes about it with a poignancy devoid of anger - Adam Zamoyski.About The Author
Jaan Kross
Jaan Kross is Estonia’s best-known and most widely translated author. He was born in Tallinn in 1920 and lived much of his life under either Soviet or German occupation. He won countless awards for his writing, including The National Cultural Award, The Amnesty International Golden Flame and the Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger. He died in 2007.
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