The Place of the Skull [Advance Review Copy]

Aitmatov, Chingiz

ISBN 10: 0802110002 / ISBN 13: 9780802110008

Published by Grove Press, New York, 1989

About this Item

A good copy of the advance review copy send to an unidentified reviewer who made several corrections in blue pen. Covers have wear and spine is scuffed having lost some of the printed text. The first page and foredge has some spot staining. Corners are bumped and a few pages have small corner folds. [Loc: 52].

Seller Inventory # 1927

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Place of the Skull [Advance Review Copy]
• Publisher: Grove Press, New York
• Publication Date: 1989
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0802110002
• ISBN 13: 9780802110008
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: ARC.
• Condition: Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Fiction

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Synopsis

Aitmatov, Chingiz; Tr. By Natasha Ward, Place Of The Skull, The: A Novel

Reviews

Aitmatov, a Kirghiz who writes fiction and drama in Russian, has tested the limits of discourse in the Soviet Union throughout his 30-year career. The publication last year of this stark novel was a triumph of glasnost; Time' s purchase of serial rights to the translation assures that it will be widely discussed in the West as well. The book combines wildly disparate elements: plots about wolves displaced from their Central Asian habitat, a Russian "holy fool" in the great tradition who preaches a new Christianity and resists drug trafficking and animal slaughter, and the ordeal of an upright Kirghiz collective-farm shepherd. The Place of the Skull is Golgotha, and a Bulgakovian interview between Christ and Pilate lies at the heart of the novel. Strangely enough, it works: the novel howls with all the grief and rage of its she-wolf protagonist.
- Mary F. Zirin, Altadena, Cal.
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