Devil's Midnight

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August 1919 - February 1920. The Red Army is making its final triumphant surge across the tortured remains of the old Russian Empire. For the defiantly apolitical artists and aesthetes at the heart of Devil's Midnight, it is a time of disruption and apocalypse, their lives pulled between narrow escapes, desperate intimacy and horrific violence. The story of the Russian Revolution has been told many times but perhaps never before from Kapralov's phantasmagorical vantage point. Startling and eloquent.' - Library Journal'

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"The story of the Russian Revolution has been told many times but perhaps never before from Kapralov's phantasmagorical vantage point. Startling, eloquent..." - Library Journal "Immediately engaging, written in the best tradition of Russian authors struggling to explain their land and its people." - Ink 19"

Author Bio

Yuri Kapralov was born in the Caucasus and emigrated to the US in 1949. He has lived in the East Village, New York City, since 1965. He has exhibited his visual art in New York and San Francisco and is the author of Castle Dubrava (Dutton, 1982) - a vampire novel - and Once There Was a Village (Akashic Books, 1998 - available from Turnaround) - a memoir of his experiences in the East Village in the late 1960s.