Description
Love in the cold climate.
In 1891, 27-year-old Maria Rodziewiczówna put pen to paper to record her experiences as a political exile in Siberia: the severity and beauty of nature, the extraordinary life of the steppe, the daily struggle to survive, and the lives of the exiles: some withering and dying, some barely eking out a living, and some adapting, thriving and even–finding love.
The book’s message of hope in the face of great adversity, the mysterious figure of The Shaman, and the special sense of “being there,” evoked with extraordinary beauty and economy of words have kept the book permanently in print for 130 years.
The book, who for plot and style can easily compete with the best of Turgenev or Tolstoy, was unlucky with its choice to translator. The first English translation of the book, published in 1900, never made a splash and has since faded away. This new translation updates the style and corrects many mistakes and omissions, giving us the first accurate and highly readable English version of this great, timeless classic.
If you love great literature and beautiful prose, you will love this. Pick up your copy today.
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