The Faculty Of Useless Knowledge

ISBN-13: 9781846556982 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 512 str.

Yury Dombrovsky; IUril Dombrovskii

Opis

The Year of Terror, 1937. Zybin, an exiled intellectual and archaeologist in the far province of Alma-Ata, finds himself wrongly accused of a crime during the darkest days of Stalin's reign. Soon, he and his colleagues are caught up in an ambitious Cheka investigator's attempts to set up a show trial to rival those taking place in Moscow.