The heart of the storm. Mantle H.

“The Heart of the Bury” is the first historical novel of the famous Hilary Mantel, the author of the famous trilogy about Thomas Cromwell (Wulfhall, “Enter the accused”, “Mirror and Light”), the two books of which received the Buker Prize. The novel, which significantly ahead of his time and saw the light only a few decades after writing. For the first time in the history of English literature, the French Revolution is largely shown by the eyes of its enemies and victims, but by the eyes of those who created it and was later the whaled beast, the fiery stands of Maximilian Robespierre, Georges Jacques Danton and Camille Demulen...

< P> “I became a writer exclusively because I missed a chance to become a historian... I had to tell myself the history of the French revolution, but not from the point of view of its enemies, but from the point of view of those who committed it. I believe that this book has always been most important to me... I think that no one but me will write so. No one practices this method, this is my ideal of historical reliability ”(Hilary Mantel).

for the first time in Russian!