The Porcupine

The Porcupine
ISBN-10
0679744827
ISBN-13
9780679744825
Series
The Porcupine
Category
Fiction
Pages
138
Language
English
Published
1993
Publisher
Vintage Books
Author
Julian Barnes

Description

A deposed Communist Party leader on trial for crimes against the state faces off against the newly appointed prosecutor general, in an incisive novel about the ramifications of the recent transformation of Eastern Europe

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