This is a harrowing narrative account of how the forces of fate combined to destroy the life of one of 20th century Russian literature's most talented and esteemed poets during the bloodiest period of Stalin's regime.

A new collection of Portis's miscellany, published together for the first time

First published in 1932, this novel probes the mystical and spiritual ethos of the small English village of Glastonbury, and the effect upon its inhabitants of a mythical tradition from the remotest past of human history - the legend of the Grail.