
Dictator Calls
**LONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 2024**
''Comrade Stalin wishes to speak with you.''
A fascinating exploration of the relationship between writers and tyranny, from the winner of the first Man Booker International Prize.
In 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 fascina...
**LONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 2024**
''Comrade Stalin wishes to speak with you.''
A fascinating exploration of the relationship between writers and tyranny, from the winner of the first Man Booker International Prize.
In 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 fascina...