Stalin's Barber

A Novel

Inbunden, Engelska, 2013

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Avraham Bahar leaves debt-ridden and depressed Albania to seek a better life in, ironically, Stalinist Russia. A professional barber, he curries favor with the Communist regime, ultimately being invited to become Stalin’s personal barber at the Kremlin, where he is entitled to live in a government house with other Soviet dignitaries. In the intrigue that follows, Avraham, now known as Razan, is not only barber to Stalin but also to the many Stalin look-alikes that the paranoid dictator circulates to thwart possible assassination attempts—including one from Razan himself.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2013-02-16
Mått163 x 235 x 34 mm
Vikt708 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor392
FörlagTaylor Trade Publishing
ISBN9781589797710

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AcknowledgmentsPart IChapter 1: ExileChapter 2: Making the Family Skeletons DanceChapter 3: Purging the PartyChapter 4: The LetterChapter 5: Iosif Vissarionovich DzhugashviliChapter 6: To Mosocw, to Moscow, to Moscow!Chapter 7: In Voronezh, a City Peter Built and Poets BravedChapter 8: In the Most High and Palmy State of RomeChapter 9: That Way Madness LiesChapter 10: Only the PitilessChapter 11: StatisticsPart IIChapter 12: Pavel’s Polish PelagiaChapter 13: Escape from ParadiseChapter 14: The Haughty BarberChapter 15: Anna on the BubbleChapter 16: The Worst Cut of AllChapter 17: To the Finland StationRazan’s ListAnna’s NotesGlossary

Stalin's Barber is all that the great historical novels used to be—epic in scope, with powerful characterizations, visceral action, and a blazingly intelligent authorial point of view. Here we meet—and know—the chief players in the extraordinary centrifuge that was Stalin's Soviet Union. The culture is revealed and flayed; the lives are displayed and understood—this is ‘grand’ writing, in the sense of ‘grand’ opera, from a man who is already a master playwright, and now deserves to be a world figure.