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Rediscovered Classics Ser.: The Doomed City by Boris Strugatsky and Arkady Strugatsky (2016, Trade Paperback)

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The magnum opus of Russia's greatest science fiction novelists translated into English for the first time Arkady and Boris Strugatsky are widely considered the greatest of Russian science fiction masters, and their most famous work, Roadside Picnic , has enjoyed great popularity worldwide. Yet the novel they worked hardest on, that was their own favorite, and that readers worldwide have acclaimed as their magnum opus, has never before been published in English. The Doomed City was so politically risky that the Strugatsky brothers kept its existence a complete secret even from their closest friends for sixteen years after its completion in 1972. It was only published in Russia during perestroika in the late 1980s, the last of their works to see publication. It was translated into a host of European languages, and now appears in English in a major new effort by acclaimed translator Andrew Bromfield. The Doomed City is set in an experimental city whose sun gets switched on in the morning and switched off at night, bordered by an abyss on one side and an impossibly high wall on the other. Its inhabitants are people who were plucked from twentieth-century history at various times and places and left to govern themselves, advised by Mentors whose purpose seems inscrutable. Andrei Voronin, a young astronomer plucked from Leningrad in the 1950s, is a die-hard believer in the Experiment, even though his first job in the city is as a garbage collector. And as increasinbly nightmarish scenarios begin to affect the city, he rises through the political hierarchy, with devastating effect. Boris Strugatsky wrote that the task of writing The Doomed City "was genuinely delightful and fascinating work." Readers will doubtless say the same of the experience of reading it.

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Publisher
Chicago Review Press, Incorporated
ISBN-10
1613749937
ISBN-13
9781613749937
eBay Product ID (ePID)
219259386

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Book Title
Doomed City
Author
Boris Strugatsky, Arkady Strugatsky
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Science Fiction / General
Publication Year
2016
Book Series
Rediscovered Classics Ser.
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
480 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
8.5 in
Item Height
1 in
Item Width
5.5 in
Item Weight
18.6 Oz

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Series Volume Number
25
Lc Classification Number
Pg3476.S78835g7313
Reviews
"This publication of The Doomed City reveals the Strugatsky's great lost masterwork, an allegorical nightmare metropolis fit for the special atlas that gives home to Kafka's Castle , Charles Finney's The Unholy City , Rex Warner's Aerodrome , and a very select handful of others." -- Jonathan Lethem, "This publication of The Doomed City reveals the Strugatsky's great lost masterwork, an allegorical nightmare metropolis fit for the special atlas that gives home to Kafka's Castle , Charles Finney's The Unholy City , Rex Warner's Aerodrome , and a very select handful of others." -- Jonathan Lethem
Copyright Date
2016
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
2016-009300
Dewey Decimal
891.7344
Dewey Edition
23

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