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London May 1907. Young Stalin attends conference of communists, connecting with fiery Finnish activist Elli Vuokko while he battles to keep the party radical and dodge the secret police.

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9781639731435

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A riveting portrayal of a young Stalin in London. --Financial Times A fascinating and immersive imagining of real events that both challenges and illuminates history. --Benjamin Myers Historical facts furnish May with a cast of legends to bring to life, and he does it with verve and humour. --The Times A captivating thought-experiment that marks a consolidation of May's powers as a writer. --The Telegraph May is superb at summoning the sights and smells of turn of the century London... Intelligent and readable. --Financial Times

Stellar ... With a spare, sardonic style, May probes Stalin's childhood trauma, sense of charisma, and brutally violent side, humanizing him without sentimentalizing ... This is superb. --Publishers Weekly, Starred Review A riveting portrayal of a young Stalin in London. --Financial Times The novel exposes the stark contradictions of communism at every turn ... A subtly menacing portrayal of the future tyrant and mass killer. --Kirkus Reviews Historical facts furnish May with a cast of legends to bring to life, and he does it with verve and humour. --The Times A captivating thought-experiment that marks a consolidation of May's powers as a writer. --The Telegraph A fascinating and immersive imagining of real events that both challenges and illuminates history. --Benjamin Myers

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Stephen May is the author of five novels including Life! Death! Prizes! which was shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award and The Guardian Not The Booker Prize. He has also been shortlisted for the Wales Book of the Year and is a winner of the Media Wales Reader's Prize. He has also written plays, as well as for television and film. He lives in West Yorkshire.

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