The Czar's Madman
Timo von Bock's release by the Czar from nine years' incarceration does not spell the end of the Baron's troubles: he is confined to his Livonian estate to live under the constant eye of police informers planted among his own household, and is subjected to endless humiliations. It is claimed that he is a madman and in need of 'protection': a man would need to be insane, after all, to have taken a Czar at his word when asked for a candid appraisal of the state's infirmities.From the year of his release from prison and return to his wife Eeva, a woman of peasant stock to whom, with her brother Jakob, he has given a solid education, the Baron's…
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- ISBN: 978-1-86046-579-6
- EAN: 9781860465796
- Produktnummer: 17632193
- Verlag: Random House UK
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2001
- Seitenangabe: 368 S.
- Ausstattung: Trade Paperback
- Masse: H21.8 cm x B13.8 cm x D3.2 cm 370 g
- Gewicht: 370
Über den Autor
Jaan Kross was born in Tallinn in 1920. He studied law at the University of Tartu and taught law until his arrest and deportation, with countless other Estonians, to Siberia in 1946. He, on his release in 1954, returned to Tallinn and devoted himself to poetry and to translating the classics, including Shakespeare, Balzac and Stefan Zweig. Later, his interest in Estonia's chequered history made him turn his attention to the historical novel, and he established his reputation as one of Europe's outstanding practitioners of this genre. He was regarded as an Estonian writer of world class. He died in December 2007.On its publication in France, The Czar's Madman won the Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger.
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