The Brothers Karamazov

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Winner of the Pen/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize The award-winning translation of Fyodor Dostoevskys classic novel of psychological realism. The Brothers Karamasov is a murder mystery a courtroom drama and an exploration of erotic rivalry in a series of triangular love affairs involving the wicked and sentimental Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov and his three sonsthe impulsive and sensual Dmitri; the coldly rational Ivan; and the healthy red-cheeked young novice Alyosha. Through the gripping events of their story Dostoevsky portrays the whole of Russian life is social and spiritual striving in what was both the golden age and a tragic turning point in Russian culture. This award-winning translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky remains true to the verbal inventiveness of Dostoevskys prose preserving the multiple voices the humor and the surprising modernity of the original. It is an achievement worthy of Dostoevskys last and greatest novel.