Project Dostoevski

On the fiery deserts of the planet Nabu, a civilisation of highly intelligent gases prepares to storm the cosmos for a noble cause. In late nineteenth-century St Petersburg, Dostoevsky entertains pilgrims from parallel dimensions over hot tea, untroubled that he never wrote a second volume of The Brothers Karamazov, while a namesake who serves the tsar's sinister secret police waits in his dungeons. And in Santa Sofia, the dystopian business capital of Eastern Europe early this century, crowds go mad for a newly discovered manuscript of exactly that lost volume. Aleksey K., a bank clerk just laid off, suspects someone is playing a cruel joke on History and sets out to unravel it. A breathless plot binds the three threads into a novel about Meaning, both inside the System and outside it.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

256 pages in the original

Genres

Speculative, Satire (assigned by AI)

First published

2009 by Ciela

Author's age

34 when first published

ISBN

9789542804932 (original)