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The Edge of the World
Endimörk heimsins
Sigurjón Magnússon (born 1955)
Translated by Quentin Bates
English editions
In EnglishThe Edge of the World
Ugla · Iceland · 2018 · 119 pages
An autumn evening in 1939 in Sverdlovsk, east of the Urals. In the Ipatiev House, where the Bolsheviks shot Tsar Nicholas in the summer of 1918, senior party men from Moscow stand at the door of the old dining room, facing Pyotr Yermakov, the most notorious of the firing squad. The novel draws on sources about the imperial family's last days.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 103 pages in the original
- Genres
- Historical, Politics (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Russia, 1918–1939
- First published
- 2012 by Ormstunga
- Author's age
- 57 when first published
- ISBN
9789979631149 (original)
9789935211415 (Ugla, Iceland)