Hadji Murat (Vintage Classics) - Softcover

Tolstoy, Leo

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0307951340 ISBN 13: 9780307951342

Publisher: Vintage Books, 2012

Synopsis

Tolstoy's final work--a gripping novella about the struggle between the Muslim Chechens and their inept occupiers--is a powerful moral fable for our time.

Inspired by a historical figure Tolstoy heard about while serving in the Caucasus, this story brings to life the famed warrior Hadji Murat, a Chechen rebel who has fought fiercely and courageously against the Russian empire. After a feud with his commander he defects to the Russians, only to find that he is now trusted by neither side. He is first welcomed but then imprisoned by the Russians under suspicion of being a spy, and when he hears news of his wife and son held captive by the Chechens, Murat risks all to try to save his family. In the award-winning Pevear and Volokhonsky translation, Hadji Murat is a thrilling and provocative portrait of a tragic figure that has lost none of its relevance.

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Hadji Murat

Review:

"Hadji Murat is my personal touchstone for the sublime of prose fiction, to me the best story in the world." --Harold Bloom

"Excellent. . . . The duo has managed to convey the rather simple elegance of Tolstoy's prose." --The New Criterion

"Pevear and Volokhonsky's new version is . . . flexible individuated, immediate." --The Nation

"Well translated. As a lover of Tolstoy's work, one couldn't ask for more, and I can't recommend it highly enough." --André Alexis, The Globe and Mail (Toronto)

About this edition

• Publisher: Vintage Books
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0307951340
• ISBN 13: 9780307951342
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 144