Documents Concerning Rubashov the Gambler
  • Published: 31 October 2011
  • ISBN: 9781448113743
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 304

Documents Concerning Rubashov the Gambler

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A picaresque adventure in the tradition of The Master and Margarita, in which the gambler Rubashov dices with the devil and travels through European history, meeting some extraordinary characters along the way.

St Petersburg, 1899. Obsessive gambler Rubashov has played every game in town. Now on New Year's Eve, he finds himself on the brink of ruin, and decides to make a bid for the ultimate rush, the biggest gamble ever, to challenge the Devil to a game of poker.

Rubashov loses. His punishment is not to go straight to Hell (Hell is full and has been for years), instead he is condemned to immortality. And so begins a monumental trip through Europe, as Rubashov encounters some of the twentieth century's most notorious characters.
  • Published: 31 October 2011
  • ISBN: 9781448113743
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 304
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About the author

Carl-Johan Vallgren

CARL-JOHAN VALLGREN was born in 1964. He is the author of eight novels, of which The Horrific Sufferings of the Mind-reading Monster Hercules Barefoot...was the first novel to be appear in English. His work has been translated into eleven languages. He lives in Stockholm.

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Praise for Documents Concerning Rubashov the Gambler

A gloriously inventive historical adventure

The Times

Frame[s] the everyday with an almost medieval fascination with the grotesque and the macabre... proof, in this case, that the devil has all the good stories

Metro

Hugely entertaining, witty and thoughtful, this is a future cult classic

Big Issue

Sensational... Vallgren has a superb talent for pastiche, and makes witty and convincing cameos of the infamous and the great

Financial Times

There are some nicely observed episodes here... disturbing metaphors that offer brilliant, brief illuminations of his brutal subject matter

New Statesman
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