- Fiction, Politicians, Trials (Political crimes and offenses), Literature
Superbly humane in its moral concerns...an excellent novel'... The Times. Stoyo Petkanov, the deposed Party leader of a former Soviet satellite country, is on trial. His adversary, the prosecutor general, stands for the new government's ideals and liberal certainties, and is attempting to ensare Petkanov with the dictator's own totalitarian laws.
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Classical in form, grave, prestige and intimate.
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- unpretentiousprestige
- intimateepic
- earnestironic
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- Author
- Julian Barnes
- First published
- 1992
- Pages
- 138
- Publisher
- Distributed by Random House, Random House Publishing Group, Knopf
- Editions
- 6
- Language
- German, English
- ISBN
- 9783453071216
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Julian Patrick Barnes is an English writer. Barnes won the Man Booker Prize for his book *The Sense of an Ending* (2011). He has also written crime fiction under the pseudonym Dan Kavanagh. In addition to novels, Barnes has published collections of essays and short stories. - Wikipedia
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