Notes from the House of the Dead

Rowan Williams -- author of Dostoevsky: Language, Faith, and Fiction "As usual, Boris Jakim offers a fluent and accessible translation, giving us a new opportunity to encounter one of Dostoevsky's most seminal works. So much of the vision and insight of the great novels has its roots here in his nightmare experience in the Siberian penal camps, and here we have a first-class new rendering of this unique chronicle." Robert Bird -- author of Fyodor Dostoevsky "This startling book was a sensation in its day and became the source of all of Dostoevsky's mature fictions. . . . Leo Tolstoy wrote that he did not know 'a better book in all modern literature.' One hundred and fifty years later, Notes from the House of the Dead still retains the quality of a literary experiment capable of shocking and moving its readers. Boris Jakim's new translation vividly and sensitively communicates the sense of discovery the work had for its first readers." David Bentley Hart -- author of The Beauty of the Infinite and Atheist Delusions "Jakim captures Dostoevsky's voice with an immediacy and power that is perhaps a little uncanny. This should by all rights become the standard English edition of this book."