The Great Prince Died (Paperback, First Edition, Enlarged Ed.)

On August 20, 1940, Marxist philosopher, politician, and revolutionary Leon Trotsky was attacked with an ice axe in his home in Coyoacan, Mexico. He died the next day. In The Great Prince Died, Bernard Wolfe offers his lyrical, fictionalized account of Trotsky's assassination as witnessed through the eyes of an array of characters: the young American student helping to translate the exiled Trotsky's work (and to guard him), the Mexican police chief, a Rumanian revolutionary, the assassin and his handlers, a poor Mexican "peon," and Trotsky himself. Drawing on his own experiences working as the exiled Trotsky's secretary and bodyguard and mixing in digressions on Mexican culture, Stalinist tactics, and Bolshevik history, Wolfe interweaves fantasy and fact, delusion and journalistic reporting to create one of the great political novels of the past century.

General

Imprint:	University of Chicago Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	September 2015
Authors:	Bernard Wolfe
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 28mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	416
Edition:	First Edition, Enlarged Ed.
ISBN-13:	978-0-226-26064-8
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction Promotions
LSN:	0-226-26064-X
Barcode:	9780226260648

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