Author:Fyodor Dostoyevsky,Richard Pevear,Richard Pevear,Larissa Volokhonsky
The illegitimate son of a landowner and his common-law peasant wife, Arkady Dolgoruky has scarcely seen these parents during his nineteen years of life. In a narrative combining farce and pathos, Dostoevsky describes Arkady's visit to St Petersburg in search of the 'accidental family' who have dominated his dreams. The confrontation with them does not turn out quite as he imagined it. This relatively late novel, written in the last decade of the author's life, nevertheless captures the exuberance and embarrassments, the bliss and bale of adolescence in all its volatility and uncertainty.
'John Lennon once said that 'life is what happens while you're busy making other plans', a simple truth beautifully conveyed in this powerful novel'
—— ChoiceA stonking read.
—— WOMAN'S OWN (5 STARS)Three Junes almost threatens to burst with all the life it contains. Glass's ability-would be marvellous in any novelist. In a first-time novelist, it's extraordinary.
—— Michael Cunningham, author of The Hours.This is the one novel that everyone insisted I took with me. Set in a Sudanese village by the Nile, it is a brilliant exploration of African encounters with the West, and the corrupting power of colonialism. I never got this book out to read without someone coming up to tell me how brilliant it was
—— Mary BeardAn Arabian Nights in reverse, enclosing a pithy moral about international misconceptions and delusions...Powerfully and poetically written and splendidly translated by Denys Johnson-Davies
—— ObserverThe prose, translated from Arabic, has a grave beauty. It's the story of a man who returns to his native Sudan after being educated in England, then encounters the first Sudanese to get an English education. The near-formal elegance in the writing contrasts with the sly anti-colonial world view of the book, and this makes it even more interesting
—— Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieDenys Johnson-Davies...the leading Arabic-English translator of our time
—— Edward Said
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