Koestler, Arthur
Summary: Fictional portrayal of the nightmare politics of our time. Its hero is an aging revolutionary, imprisoned and psychologically tortured by the Party to which he has dedicated his life. As the pressure to confess preposterous crimes increases, he re-lives a career that embodies the terrible ironies and human betrayals of a totalitarian movement masking itself as an instrument of deliverance.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2006
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC KOETowles, Amor
Summary: "A Gentleman in Moscow immerses us in another elegantly drawn era with the story of Count Alexander Rostov. When, in 1922, he is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, the count is sentenced to house arrest in the Metropol, a grand hotel across the street from the Kremlin. Rostov, an indomitable man of erudition and wit, has never worked a day in his life, and must now live...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2016
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Goldberg, Paul
Summary: "A thrilling, witty, and slyly original Cold War mystery about a ragtag group of Jewish refuseniks in Moscow. On his wedding day in 1976, Viktor Moroz stumbles upon a murder scene: two gay men, one of them a US official, are axed to death in Moscow. Viktor, a Jewish refusenik, is stuck in Russia due to the government's denial of his application to leave for Israel; he sits "in refusal"...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2023
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC GOLReay, Katherine
Summary: Vienna, 1954: After losing everyone she loves in the final days of World War II, Ingrid Bauer agrees to a hasty marriage with a gentle Soviet embassy worker and follows him home to Moscow. She begins to suspect her husband works for the KGB. Upon her daughter's birth, Ingrid reaches out to Britain, the country of her mother's birth, and starts passing along intelligence to MI6. Washington, DC,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Muse 2023
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC REATowles, Amor
Summary: "A Gentleman in Moscow immerses us in another elegantly drawn era with the story of Count Alexander Rostov. When, in 1922, he is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, the count is sentenced to house arrest in the Metropol, a grand hotel across the street from the Kremlin. Rostov, an indomitable man of erudition and wit, has never worked a day in his life, and must now live...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016