Victor Serge

Rosja, czas Wielkiego Terroru. W kraju jest nędzna sytuacja gospodarcza: deficyt towarów, kolejki po żywność, bieda, biurokratyczna korupcja. Co więcej, panuje wszechobecny lęk o życie: ludzie tracą pracę, nie mogą wyjechać z kraju, są niewinnie aresztowani, niektórzy popełniają samobójstwa. Szukający sprawiedliwości Romaszkin kupuje na targu...

Victor Serge served five years in French penitentiaries (1912-1917) for the crime of 'criminal association' - in fact for his courageous refusal to testify against his old comrades, the infamous 'Tragic Bandits' of French anarchism. 'While I was still in prison,' Serge later recalled, 'fighting off tuberculosis,...

One cold Moscow night, Comrade Tulayev, a high government official, is shot dead on the street, and the search for the killer begins. In this panoramic vision of the Soviet Great Terror, the investigation leads all over the world, netting a whole series of suspects whose only connection is their innocenceat least of the crime of which they stand...

Unforgiving Yearsis a thrilling and terrifying journey into the disastrous, blazing core of the twentieth century. Victor Serge's final novel, here translated into English for the first time, is at once the most ambitious, bleakest, and most lyrical of this neglected major writer's works.The book is arranged into four sections, like the panels of...