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This splendid novel is set in the tumultuous Soviet Union of the 1930s during the treason trials. Rubashov, the protagonist and a hero of the revolution, is arrested and jailed for things he has not done, though there is much about the current Soviet state that veered from his ideals as a revolutionary. His investigators, Ivanov and Gletkin, seek a public confession and interrogate him using a number of methods. Through the ordeal, Rubashov reaches an epiphany or two while his interrogators suffer the cruel fate of the Soviet machine. Darkness at Noon succeeds as political/historical novel, but even more so as a refreshing tale of the human spirit.
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The New York Times Book Review, Harold Strauss
It is the sort of novel that transcends ordinary limitations ... written with such dramatic power, with such warmth of feeling, and with such persuasive simplicity that it is as absorbing as melodrama.
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Darkness at Noon
Darkness at Noon,Arthur Koestler,Bantam,0553265954,1917-,1925-1953,Classics,Fiction,History,Literature - Classics / Criticism,Moscow Trials, Moscow, Russia, R.S.F.R., 1936-1937,Russia,Soviet Union,Fiction / General
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