After Arkadia (Penguin international writers)

By Nella Bielski

Book Overview

Set in the years leading up to and following the Russian revolution, this diptych of novels traces the fortunes of Jeanne, an actress whose career is cut short by the events of 1917 in Odessa. Driven... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0140099581
• ISBN13: 9780140099584
• Release Date: January 1992
• Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.47 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.8" x 0.6" x 5.0"

Customer Reviews

what a writer!

this is a very interesting book and nella bielski has an amazing style. i couldn't put it down and wish it didn't have to end.

Bielski's Masterpiece

'After Arkadia' (1991) is a deceptively simple novel. Although in essence a romance, it's also a cultural history of Russia and France in the 1910s, the years of the Russian Revolution and World War I. Bielski tells her story in clear and concise prose, allowing the reader to experience femme fatale heroine Jeanne's life first-hand without all of the detailed descriptions that bog down a lot of historical novels. The surrounding events are revealed mainly through Jeanne's acquaintances and lovers.