Jaan Kross: 6 books

È questa ferita che attraversa il Novecento a riaprirsi nei racconti di Jaan Kross. Tre episodi chiave di una storia di formazione che ha per protagonista il suo alter ego Peeter Mirk, giovane scrittore dissidente in perenne fuga, imprigionato dai nazisti e poi dai sovietici nello stesso carcere...

Tussen drie plagen, een van de allermooiste historische romans ooit geschreven, speelt zich af in de zestiende eeuw, in wat tegenwoordig Estland is, maar toen Lijfland werd genoemd. Het boek vertelt het verhaal van Balthasar Russow, een man die werkelijk heeft bestaan; als zoon van een voerman werkte...

The first part in an epic historical trilogy - The Estonian answer to Wolf Hall - by the nation's greatest modern writer Jaan Kross's trilogy dramatises the life of the renowned Livonian Chronicler Balthasar Russow, whose greatest work described the effects of the Livonian War on the peasantry...

Dopo nove anni di prigionia nella fortezza di Schlüsselburg, il barone Timo von Bock, dichiarato pazzo, viene confinato con la famiglia nei suoi possedimenti baltici, sotto la stretta sorveglianza di spie governative. Che crimine ha commesso questo brillante aristocratico e colonnello dell’Impero...

The second part in an epic historical trilogy - The Estonian answer to Wolf Hall - by the nation's greatest modern writer The year is 1563, and by any account Balthasar Russow can be said to have risen in the world. Fresh from his studies in the German town of Stetten, he has assumed the role...

The third part in an epic historical trilogy - The Estonian answer to Wolf Hall - by the nation's greatest modern writer A ship from Rostock arrives in Tallinn loaded with printed copies of Balthasar Russow's Chronicle - the culmination of our hero's life's work. But though it is an instant success,...