Jaan Kross, Author, Anselm Hollo, Translator New Press $13.95 (304p) ISBN 978-1-56584-111-6
This fictional memoir of a civil servant, Professor Martens, in czarist Russia is the latest novel from Estonian author Kross. (May)
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Jaan Kross, Author, Anselm Hollo, Translator Pantheon Books $25 (362p) ISBN 978-0-394-58437-9
The plot of Kross's first novel to appear in English may indeed ``most resemble the quick scene changes of Italian operas,'' as the narrator says, but this Estonian author's approach is provocative, original and highly political. Timo von Bock, a...
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Jaan Kross, Author, Eric Dickens, Translator Harvill Press $24 (0p) ISBN 978-1-86046-005-0
For centuries, Estonia has been a shuttlecock thwacked back and forth between Germany and Russia. The Teutonic Knights and Hanseatic League gave way (after a Swedish interlude) to Russia's Peter I; the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk (1918) returned it to...
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Joan Kross, Author, Jaan Kross, Author, Anselm Holla, Translator New Press $14.95 (368p) ISBN 978-1-56584-121-5
Fyodor Martens is an outsider at an inside job. A low-born orphan from the subject Baltic nation of Estonia, he has stood shoulder to disdainful shoulder with the Russian nobility, representing the Czar at crucial negotiations, including the...
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