Les Rois aveugles
by Joseph Kessel
Paperback (Published)
(September 2025)
ISBN: 9782251457765
4.88 x 7.44 inches
Price: $20.00
Out of stock
December 1916. Holy Russia is dying. But the Tsar, blinded by the influence that the drunken healer Rasputin exerts on him through the Tzarina, does not know it. This agony, precipitated by the assassination of the miracle worker, inspires Kessel to write a merciless treatise on decomposition in the form of a “historical novel.” Filled, according to tradition, with conspiracies, murders, and impossible loves. A story full of sound and fury, in which an insignificant captain with a sarcastic look passes furtively through twice: a certain Stalin, in charge of supplies…
- By (author) Joseph Kessel
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