The vanishing futurist
Hobson, Charlotte, 1970-2017
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When twenty-two-year-old Gerty Freely travels to Russia to work as a governess in early 1914, she has no idea of the vast political upheavals ahead, nor how completely her fate will be shaped by them. In 1917, revolution sweeps away the Moscow Gerty knew. The middle classes - and their governesses - are fleeing the country, but she stays, throwing herself into an experiment in communal living led by charismatic inventor Nikita Slavkin, inspired by his belief in a future free of bourgeois clutter and alight with creativity. Yet the chaos and violence of the outside world cannot be withstood forever. Slavkin's sudden disappearance inspires the Soviet cult of the Vanishing Futurist, the scientist who sacrificed himself for the Communist ideal. Gerty, alone and vulnerable, must now discover where that ideal will ultimately lead.
Main title:
The vanishing futurist / Charlotte Hobson.
Author:
Hobson, Charlotte, 1970-, author
Imprint:
London : Faber & Faber, 2017.
Collation:
308 pages ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: 2016.Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:
9780571234875 (pbk. :)
Dewey class:
823.92
Language:
English
BRN:
1111347