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The Doomed City

Auteur(s): Arkady Strugatsky, Boris Strugatsky, Andrew Bromfield - Translator
Narrateur(s): Chris Andrew Ciulla
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Arkady and Boris Strugatsky are widely considered the greatest of Russian science fiction masters, yet the novel they worked hardest on, the one that was their own favorite and that listeners worldwide have acclaimed their magnum opus, has never before been published in English. The Doomed City was so politically risky that the Strugatskys kept its existence a secret even from their closest friends for 16 years. It was only published in Russia during perestroika in the late 1980s, the last of their works to see publication.

The Doomed City is set in an experimental city whose sun gets switched on in the morning and off at night, a city bordered by an abyss on one side and an impossibly high wall on the other. Its inhabitants are people plucked from 20th-century history at various times and places and left to govern themselves under conditions established by Mentors whose purpose seems inscrutable.

Andrei Voronin, a young astronomer taken from Leningrad in the 1950s, is a die-hard believer in the Experiment, even though his first job in the city is as a garbage collector. As increasingly nightmarish scenarios begin to affect the city, Voronin rises through the political hierarchy, with devastating effect.

©2016 Arkady and Boris Strugatsky (P)2017 Blackstone Audio, Inc. Post-apocalyptique Science-fiction Fiction Russie Japon impérial
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I'm a bit of a fan of Soviet era underground writings and this book is a powerful example of such works.

It stands well on its own as a piece of fiction but with a little knowledge it truly excels.

wow.

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Gripping from beginning to end, restrained and taut throughout. The Narrator is a genius of timing and accents.

An outstanding performance of a mindblowing novel.

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This is an allegory of the Soviet Union. People are trapped in "The Experiment," a city in which they have no control over their circumstances. The protagonist, Andrei Voronin, occupies different positions within the civil service of the city, and finds himself more and more confused and depressed as time passes.

A very challenging work.

There's only one story in the Doomed City.

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