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.
Vorwort
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.
Autorentext
Vorwort
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.
Autorentext
Carl-Johan Vallgren
Titel
Documents Concerning Rubashov the Gambler
Autor
Übersetzer
EAN
9781448113743
ISBN
978-1-4481-1374-3
Format
E-Book (epub)
Hersteller
Herausgeber
Genre
Veröffentlichung
31.10.2011
Digitaler Kopierschutz
Adobe-DRM
Dateigrösse
0.35 MB
Anzahl Seiten
304
Jahr
2011
Untertitel
Englisch
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