The Porcupine

The bestselling, Booker Prize-winning author of The Sense of an Ending trains his laser-bright prose on the collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe.

Stoyo Petkanov, the deposed Party leader, is placed on trial for crimes that range from corruption to political murder. Petkanov's guilt--and the righteousness of his opponents--would seem to be self-evident. But, as brilliantly imagined by Barnes, the trial of this cunning and unrepentant dictator illuminates the shadowy frontier between the rusted myths of the Communist past and a capitalist future in which everything is up for grabs.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 09/28/1993
ISBN: 9780679744825
Pages: 160
Weight: 0.42lbs
Size: 7.96h x 5.20w x 0.54d

Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 09/06/1993