A Dictator Calls - Ismail Kadare Maaike Post a young sailor at large

a young sailor at large in the port of Brest

Een schitterend bewijs van Mieko Kawakami's grote talent

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A Dictator Calls - Ismail Kadare Maaike Post a young sailor at largeIn June 1934, Joseph Stalin allegedly telephoned the famous novelist and poet Boris Pasternak to discuss the arrest of fellow Soviet poet Osip Mandelstam. In a fascinating combination of dreams and dossier facts, Ismail Kadare reconstructs the three minutes they spoke and the aftershocks of this tense, mysterious moment in modern history. Weaving together the accounts of witnesses, reporters and writers such as Isaiah Berlin and Anna Akhmatova, Kadare