Professor Martens' departure

Jaan Kross

first published 1994 Harvill, 1995 304 pages

Widely read in Europe, the Estonian novelist Jaan Kross is considered one of the most important writers of the Baltic region, and is an often-named candidate for the Nobel Prize. His new historical novel, Professor Martens' Departure, is written in a classic elegaic style reminiscent of Giuseppe di Lampedusa's The Leopard, and it evokes the complex world of czarist Russian society at the turn of the century. The cha...

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Professor Martens' departure edition · 1995 · Harvill · 304 pages
Professor Martens' departure edition · 1994 · New Press · 295 pages
Professor Martens' departure edition · 1994 · Harvill · 352 pages

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