Author: KATAEV KATAYEV, Valentine Kataiev (trans by Malamuth)
Title: Lonely White Sail. (a White Sail Gleams). Or Peace Is Where the Tempests Blow.
Description: London, George Allen & Unwin, 1937. A very nice bright copy in original unclipped dust-wrapper. 141pp. Clean and tight. Strikingly illustrated illustrated dust-wrapper. Used; Very Good ???????? ???????? ??????. Translated by Charles Malamuth. Lonely White Sail treats the 1905 revolution from the viewpoint of two Odessa schoolboys; it was the basis of a classic Soviet film. (Also translated in to English by Progress as A White Sail Gleams). Recommended by Michael Rosen as his 'Book To Remember ': " It is an intriguing mix of realism and expressionism, telling the story of two boys caught up in the 1905 revolution both faced with the dilemma of what to do with a sailor on the run from the Battleship Potemkin mutiny." . Hardback.

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