The Courilof Affair

The Courilof Affair
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Publisher : Vintage Canada
Total Pages : 178
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ISBN-10 : 9780307370693
ISBN-13 : 0307370690
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Book Synopsis The Courilof Affair by : Irene Nemirovsky

Download or read book The Courilof Affair written by Irene Nemirovsky and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2010-07-30 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1903 Léon M–a devout terrorist–is given the responsibility by the Revolutionary Committee of publicly “liquidating” Valerian Alexandrovitch Courilof, a notoriously brutal and cold-blooded minister. Posing as his newly appointed personal physician, Léon M is made privy to the inner world of Courilof–his failing health, his troubled domestic situation and, most importantly, the tyrannical grip that the Czar himself holds over all his ministers, forcing them to obey him or suffer the most deadly punishments. Set in Kiev and St. Petersburg, The Courilof Affair, the story of one man’s inquisition during the Bolshevik Revolution, is both an elegy to a world lost and an unsparing observation of human motives and behaviour during a period of radical upheaval in European history.


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