The Master of Petersburg

“In this charming novel, dares to imagine # J_m_koizi life # Dostoevsky, novelist of the nineteenth century, the Great. Novel begins incidents ‘Master of Petersburg’ in 1869, when he was summoned Dostoevsky from Germany to St. Petersburg as a result the sudden son death of his wife, to form immediately a mystery fraction immersed in the Russian atmosphere before the revolutionary reflection daring in power and rebellion, and in the art and imagination. depicts Dostoevsky, which pursues a manner obsessive ghost of his stepson, trying to ascertain whether the victim of suicide or murder, and whether I loved his stepfather and mother despised him when he becomes stuck Dostoevsky. Trapped in violent dreams of political activists themselves who may be they killed a girl, he reveals himself as a person with contradictions difficult to understand: naive and cautious, devout stray, thin and harsh.
 
 “South Africa’s brightest novelists … even challenges us to question our ideas about love presets not only, but also the same and the truth.”
 The Seattle Times
 
 “Exploring provocative and cynical relationship between art and life.”
 Los Angeles Times
 
 “Grim and imaginary novel beautifully. Draws Coetzee wonderful painting from an era of despair and acquisitions and hope.”
 Il magazine.