Keeper of Antiquities

The Keeper of Antiquities is simultaneously one of the great Russian modern novels and a key to understanding the terrible Stalinist purges of the late 1930s. Set far from Moscow in the remote Kazakhstan capital of Alma-Ata, The Keeper of Antiquities begins with a leisurely, almost scholarly air - like a devious story by Borges. But very soon we find ourselves watching with horror as professional rivalry between the keeper of the town's museum and the chief librarian turns into a deadly struggle for control over the meaning of the past - and therefore over the present.

Product details

• Authors: Yury Dombrovsky, Dombrovsky Yury
• Publisher: Harvill Secker
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.12.2012
• EAN: 9781846556753
• ISBN: 978-1-84655-675-3
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 215 mm x 21 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Russia, c 1930 to c 1939, FICTION / World Literature / Russia / 20th Century