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Item specifics
- Condition
- Pages
- 256
- Publication Date
- 2019-01-15
- ISBN
- 9781609454920
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Europa Editions, Incorporated
ISBN-10
1609454928
ISBN-13
9781609454920
eBay Product ID (ePID)
17038723810
Product Key Features
Book Title
Sacred Darkness
Number of Pages
256 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2019
Topic
Humorous / Black Humor, Civil Rights, Political, Biographical
Genre
Political Science, Fiction, Biography & Autobiography
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.7 in
Item Weight
10.2 Oz
Item Length
8.2 in
Item Width
5.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
Marketing & Publicity * Finished copies to political groups, Amnesty International, PEN * Academic promotion * National media campaign focused on human rights, war, former-Soviet, and political publications * e-Galley available on Edelweiss, Praise for Sacred Darkness "Berdzenishvili pulls off both a feat of fractured storytelling and a beautiful excavation of a recent, haunting past."--Publishers Weekly, Marketing & Publicity * Finished copies to political groups, Amnesty International, PEN * Academic promotion * National media campaign focused on human rights, war, former-Soviet, and political publications * e-Galley available on Edelweiss Contact Info Publicity and Author Events Rachael Small rachaelsmall@europaeditions.com
Dewey Decimal
947.58085092
Synopsis
Sacred Darkness is at once historical essay and novel. It is based entirely on true events, but brings stories together which could only be found in fiction. Several years in a prison camp gave the author an opportunity to know people that he would never have met elsewhere: people from across 15 countries of the USSR - leading writers, professors, scientists, teachers: all great people of wisdom, of different nationalities but all sharing the same absurd fate. Each chapter holds someone's name as a title: names of people that were imprisoned with the author. Developing deep friendships, spending nights in political, philosophical and artistic discussion, these people were thrown in jail as a means of suppression. But an "enlightened" person knows how to make his time interesting. This is a story about how the Soviet system kept its brightest citizens in the dark, and yet in that darkness those prisoners forged bonds that were stronger than their confines., Stories of dissent, resistance and survival from the Soviet gulags. Based on true events, a thrilling marriage of reportage and lived experience, Sacred Darkness tears apart the fabric of Russian Soviet repression with biting humor and wry insight. Here are the stories of citizens who find themselves in extraordinary and remarkable conditions. Iona, the philosopher and bon vivant; Merab, whose discourses resemble those of Socrates; Irakli, the learned classicist; Anderson, the librarian; the gourmands, Maximovich and Petrov; Kukharuk, the barber. These people and many more form the unofficial aristocracy, the intelligentsia, of the gulag, and with them, serving a sentence for political agitation, Levan Berdzenishvili, to his surprise, spends some of the most enjoyable and enlightening days of his life. Levan Berdzenishvili bears witness to these remarkable lives. Each chapter carries a single person's name and his story. Collectively, these portraits create a multifaceted and vast picture of life in the Soviet Union and during its demise. A nation seeks to suppress its brightest citizens, to keep them locked away in the dark. But in that darkness, unbeknown to the jailor, bonds stronger than walls are forming., Based on true events, a thrilling marriage of reportage and fiction, Sacred Darkness brings together the stories of a group of citizens from the Soviet Union who find themselves in an extraordinary, absurd condition. As a political dissident, Berdzenishvili lands in jail, serving a sentence on trumped up charges of activism and agitation. But rather than being the hell he expected, jail allows him access to a wide array of intellectuals, professionals, citizens of all walks of life, many of whom, he freely admits, he would not have had the chance to meet if he had not been in jail. Here he bears witness to those lives. Each chapter carries a single person's name and focuses on a single story. Collectively, however, these portraits create a multifaceted and vast picture of life in the Soviet Union and during its demise. A nation seeks to suppress its brightest citizens, to keep them locked away in the dark. But in that darkness, unbeknown to the jailor, bonds stronger than walls were forming., Based on true events, this novel set in a Soviet prison is "both a feat of fractured storytelling and a beautiful excavation of a recent, haunting past" ( Publishers Weekly ). As a political dissident, Berdzenishvili lands in jail, serving a sentence on trumped-up charges of activism and agitation. But rather than being the hell he expected, jail allows him access to a wide array of intellectuals, professionals, citizens of all walks of life, many of whom, he freely admits, he would not have had the chance to meet if he had not been in jail. Here he bears witness to those lives. Each chapter carries a single person's name and focuses on a single story. Collectively, however, these portraits create a multifaceted and vast picture of life in the Soviet Union, including during its demise. A nation seeks to suppress its brightest citizens, to keep them locked away in the dark. But in that darkness, unbeknown to the jailor, bonds stronger than walls were forming.
LC Classification Number
DK677.9
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