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A hugely entertaining, witty and thoughtful tale, set in a world where the devil plays poker for souls - but hell is full and Rubashov is condemned to wander the Earth as an immortal...Sensational, a modern classic. (fic)
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"A gloriously inventive historical adventure" (The Times)
"Sensational... Vallgren has a superb talent for pastiche, and makes witty and convincing cameos of the infamous and the great" (Financial Times)
"Hugely entertaining, witty and thoughtful, this is a future cult classic" (Big Issue)
"Frame[s] the everyday with an almost medieval fascination with the grotesque and the macabre... proof, in this case, that the devil has all the good stories" (Metro)
"There are some nicely observed episodes here... disturbing metaphors that offer brilliant, brief illuminations of his brutal subject matter" (New Statesman)
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"Sensational... Vallgren has a superb talent for pastiche, and makes witty and convincing cameos of the infamous and the great" (Financial Times)
"Hugely entertaining, witty and thoughtful, this is a future cult classic" (Big Issue)
"Frame[s] the everyday with an almost medieval fascination with the grotesque and the macabre... proof, in this case, that the devil has all the good stories" (Metro)
"There are some nicely observed episodes here... disturbing metaphors that offer brilliant, brief illuminations of his brutal subject matter" (New Statesman)
A picaresque adventure in the tradition of The Master and Margarita, in which the gambler Rubashov dices with the devil and travels through European history, meeting some extraordinary characters along the way.
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- PublisherVintage
- Publication date2008
- ISBN 10 0099498243
- ISBN 13 9780099498247
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages304
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