The Village (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781847492838)

The Village, Ivan Bunin's first full-length novel, is a bleak and uncompromising portrayal of rural life in south-west Russia. Set at the time of the 1905 Revolution and centring on episodes in the lives of a landowner and his self-educated peasant brother, the book follows characters sunk so far below the average of intelligence as to be scarcely human. A triumph of bitter realism, Bunin's cruel, lyrical prose reveals the pettiness, violence and ignorance of life on the land, foreshadowing the turbulences of Russia in the twentieth century.

Author: Ivan Bunin
ISBN-10: 1847492835
ISBN-13: 9781847492838
Publisher: Alma Books
Language: English
Published: 02/01/2013
Pages: 176
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.37lbs
Size: 7.85h x 5.13w x 0.52d

About the Author
Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin (1870-1953) was the first Russian writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. His last book of fiction, Dark Avenues, is arguably the most widely read 20th-century collection of short stories in Russia.