K. G. E. Konkel
Autore di The Glorious East Wind
Opere di K. G. E. Konkel
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- Opere
- 3
- Utenti
- 8
- Popolarità
- #1,038,911
- Voto
- 4.0
- Recensioni
- 1
- ISBN
- 6
Konkel wisely places a cast of characters for reference prior to opening this epic fiction, and then the novel commences covering pre-WW II in a manner that invites curiosity in investigating Soviet history, gradually unwinding dark aspects of wartime atrocities and manipulations and facts that have rarely found a place in literature. The secrets - it would be unfair to share in a review, as the pleasure of tackling this mammoth work is their discovery. A suggestion of the suspense this novel addresses is present early on - ‘Fedin never found out who had planted the paper in the seam of the desk. He never knew who’d informed on him for those presumably private comments in the foyer of the Supreme Soviet that muggy August afternoon. The informant? It was one and the same person. And she, Nadia Alexandrovich Fedin, was his one and only dutiful daughter.’ Konkel’s prose is turgid and probing, adding a sense of immediacy to this engrossing novel. Prepare to discover concepts that anticipate today’s Ukrainian Russian conflict!… (altro)