Results for: books tagged ‘Exile’
Time Within Time: Andrei Tarkovsky
Virgin Soil: Volume 2: Ivan Turgenev
Virgin Soil, written in 1877 and translated into English in 1896, was Ivan Turgenev’s last novel and an appropriate end to his career as a novelist. Its analysis of the ... More
Virgin Soil: Volume 1: Ivan Turgenev
Virgin Soil, written in 1877 and translated into English in 1896, was Ivan Turgenev’s last novel and an appropriate end to his career as a novelist. Its analysis of the ... More
Love and Freedom: Rosemary Kavan
This is a brave book that deserves to better known. Rosemary Kavan, an Englishwoman who was married to a Czech, unforgettably portrays life in post-war Prague, from the early optimistic ... More
Juniper Hall: Linda Kelly
In 1792-3, Juniper Hall was the unlikely refuge for a group of French aristocrats, freshly escaped from the dramas of the revolution. Into the quiet Surrey countryside descended the sophisticated, ... More
Geniuses Together: Humphrey Carpenter
In Humphrey Carpenter's own words, 'This is the story of the longest-ever literary party, which went on in Montparnasse, on the Left Bank, throughout the 1920s.''This book', to continue to ... More
Stalin's Nemesis: Bertrand Patenaude
The story of one of the twentieth century’s most notorious political murders: the assassination of Leon Trotsky. Trotsky was the charismatic intellectual of the Russian Revolution, and a brilliant writer ... More
A Treasonable Growth: Ronald Blythe
A Treasonable Growth was Ronald Blythe's first book and only novel. It is set in Aldeburgh, Suffolk shortly before the Second World War. Ronald Blythe himself has described it as ... More
Encounter: Milan Kundera
Milan Kundera’s new collection of essays is a passionate defence of art in an era that, he argues, no longer values art or beauty. With the same dazzling mix of ... More
Open City: Teju Cole
With shades of Baudelaire and Camus, Teju Cole's Open City, a haunting novel about national identity, race, liberty, loss, dislocation and surrender, is now getting the same acclaim it received on publication in the US. More