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The Courilof Affair
The Courilof Affair
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In 1903 L on M - the son of two Russian revolutionaries - is given the responsibility of 'liquidating' Valerian Alexandrovitch Courilof the notoriously brutal and cold-blooded Russian Minister of Education by the Revolutionary Committee. The assassination he is told must take place in public and be carried out in the most grandiose manner possible in order to strike the imagination of the people.
Posing as his newly appointed personal physician L on M takes up residence with Courilof in his summer house in the Iles and awaits instructions. But over the course of his stay he is made privy to the inner world of the man he must kill - his failing health his troubled domestic situation and most importantly the tyrannical grip that the Czar himself holds over all his Ministers forcing them to obey him or suffer the most deadly punishments.
Set during a period of radical upheaval in European history The Courliof Affair is an unsparing observation of human motives and the abuses of power an elegy to a lost world and an unflinchingly topical cautionary tale.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
178
Release Date:
2008-10-02
Publication Date:
2008-10-02
Publisher:
Vintage
Languages:
Original:
English
ISBN10:
0099493985
ISBN13:
9780099493983
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Minimum Reading Age:
0
Weight:
196 g
Height:
129 cm
Width:
198 cm
Thickness:
10 cm
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