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The Keeper of Antiquities is simultaneously one of the great Russian modern novels and a key to understanding the terrible Stalinist purges of the later Thirties. Set far away from Moscow in the remote Kazakhstan capital of Alma-Ata, The Keeper of Antiquities beings 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 of the meaning of the past - and therefore of the present.
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"A spirited, often anguished, indictment of mindless officialdom wherever it appears" (Kirkus Reviews)
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The acclaimed Russian novel that explores the far-reaching effects of Stalin's regime outside the confines of the major cities.
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- PublisherThe Harvill Press
- Publication date1991
- ISBN 10 0002710927
- ISBN 13 9780002710923
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages288
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