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Documents Concerning Rubashov the Gambler

Documents Concerning Rubashov the Gambler

by Sarah Death (Translator), Carl-Johan Vallgren (Author)

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    Paperback 2008

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Synopsis

St Petersburg, 1899. Obsessive gambler Rubashov has played every game in town. Now on New Year's Eve, he finds himself on the brink of ruin, and decides to make a bid for the ultimate rush, the biggest gamble ever, to challenge the Devil to a game of poker. Rubashov loses. His punishment is not to go straight to Hell (Hell is full and has been for years), instead he is condemned to immortality. And so begins a monumental trip through Europe, as Rubashov encounters some of the twentieth century's most notorious characters.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 304
 Edition: UK ed.
 Publisher: Vintage
Published: 03 Jul 2008
ISBN 10: 0099498243
ISBN 13: 9780099498247
Book Overview: A picaresque adventure in the tradition of The Master and Margarita, in which the gambler Rubashov dices with the devil and travels through European history, meeting some extraordinary characters along the way.

Media Reviews
A gloriously inventive historical adventure * The Times *
Sensational... Vallgren has a superb talent for pastiche, and makes witty and convincing cameos of the infamous and the great * Financial Times *
Hugely entertaining, witty and thoughtful, this is a future cult classic * Big Issue *
Frame[s] the everyday with an almost medieval fascination with the grotesque and the macabre... proof, in this case, that the devil has all the good stories * Metro *
There are some nicely observed episodes here... disturbing metaphors that offer brilliant, brief illuminations of his brutal subject matter * New Statesman *
Author Bio
CARL-JOHAN VALLGREN was born in 1964. He is the author of eight novels, of which The Horrific Sufferings of the Mind-reading Monster Hercules Barefoot...was the first novel to be appear in English. His work has been translated into eleven languages. He lives in Stockholm.