Join other book-lovers for a walk on Hampstead Heath to discuss a lost Russian masterpiece, The Spectre of Alexander Wolf.
A man is haunted by the memory of a soldier he killed, until he reads a story that describes it in perfect detail. Obsessed with the quality of the writing as much as the possibility that the man he shot is alive, the narrator sets off in search of the author. Written by Gaito Gazdanov, one of Nabakov’s fellow émigré writers, The Spectre of Alexander Wolf is a powerful psychological thriller, which poses unsettling questions about guilt and redemption, love and fate.
‘A mesmerising work of literature.’ Antony Beevor
The book is available here.
Please join us at our shop on South End Road on Sunday 8th of December at 11.30.
