Imprint: Vintage Classics
Published: 06/07/2006
ISBN: 9780099490661
Length: 304 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 18mm x 129mm
Weight: 213g
RRP: £9.99
Discover Mikhail Bugakov's classic literary love letter to the city of Kyiv.
Drawing closely on Bulgakov's personal experiences of the horrors of civil war as a young doctor, The White Guard takes place in Kyiv, 1918, a time of turmoil and suffocating uncertainty as the Bolsheviks, Socialists and Germans fight for control of the city. It tells the story of the Turbins, a once-wealthy Russian family, as they are forced to come to terms with revolution and a new regime.
Bulgakov's first novel, The White Guard is one of the greatest works of twentieth century Russian literature. As epic a chronicle of life and death in the Russian Empire as War and Peace.
'The tumultuous atmosphere of the Ukrainian revolution and civil war is brilliantly evoked' Daily Telegraph
Imprint: Vintage Classics
Published: 06/07/2006
ISBN: 9780099490661
Length: 304 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 18mm x 129mm
Weight: 213g
RRP: £9.99
A powerful reverie...the city is so vivid to the eye that it is the real hero of the book.
One of those few emancipated Soviet writers who firmly believe-and still believe-that to create is to choose
Worth reading in any language
The White Guard captures the tumult, madness and confusion of revolution