

The Czar's Madman
- Published: 15 August 2001
- ISBN: 9781860465796
- Imprint: Harvill Press
- Format: Trade Paperback
- Pages: 368
- RRP: $45.00
The Czar's Madman
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- Published: 15 August 2001
- ISBN: 9781860465796
- Imprint: Harvill Press
- Format: Trade Paperback
- Pages: 368
- RRP: $45.00
Spellbindingly readable
John Bayley, Times Literary Supplement
This gripping novel of the folly of idealism set in the post-Napoleonic Russian empire, has helped Jaan Kross to the stature of world-class novelist... An outdated, almost forgotten moral beauty struggles with the force of modern, well-meaning compromise
The Times
The Czar's Madman is no bloodless allegory but a rich slice of reconstructed history... Kross creates an abundant human landscape with nothing schematic about it
Observer
This author's scope and depth make him a world writer, and his work is translated into every major language
Doris Lessing, Independent