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Smoke Author: Ivan Turgenev

ISBN: 9781847493163 Format: Paperback Number Of Pages: 256 Published: 1 August 2013 Country of Publication: GB Dimensions (cm): 19.9 x 12.9 x 1.9 Description: A melancholy evocation of impossible romance, Smoke represents the apogee of Turgenev's later fiction.

On his way back to Russia after some years spent in the West, Grigory Mikhailovich Litvinov, the son of a retired official of merchant stock, stops over in Baden-Baden to meet his fiancee Tatyana. However, a chance encounter with his old flame, the manipulative Irina - now married to a general and a prominent figure in aristocratic expatriate circles - unearths feelings buried deep inside the young man's heart, derailing his plans for the future and throwing his life into turmoil. Around this love story Turgenev constructs a sharply satirical expose of his countrymen, which famously embroiled its author in a heated quarrel with Dostoevsky.

About the Author

van Turgenev (1818-83) was a novelist, poet and dramatist, and now ranks as one of the towering figures of Russian literature. His masterpiece, Fathers and Children, is considered one of the greatest novels of the nineteenth century.

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