For Two Thousand Years

By: Mihail Sebastian

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Paperback | 25 February 2016 | Edition Number 1

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240 Pages

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''Nothing I have read is more affecting than Mihail Sebastian''s magnificent, haunting 1934 novel, For Two Thousand Years'' - Philippe Sands, Guardian Books of the Year

A prescient interwar masterpiece, available in English for the first time

''Absolutely, definitively alone'', a young Jewish student in Romania tries to make sense of a world that has decided he doesn''t belong. Spending his days walking the streets and his nights drinking and gambling, meeting revolutionaries, zealots, lovers and libertines, he adjusts his eyes to the darkness that falls over Europe, and threatens to destroy him.

Mihail Sebastian''s 1934 novel was written amid the anti-Semitism which would, by the end of the decade, force him out of his career and turn his friends and colleagues against him. For Two Thousand Years is a lucid, heart-wrenching chronicle of resilience and despair, broken layers of memory and the terrible forces of history.

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His prose is like something Chekov might have written - the same modesty, candour, and subtleness of observation -- Arthur Miller Philip O Ceallaigh's meticulous and vibrant translation restores to us the wry, bitterly intelligent, endlessly self-castigating yet dauntingly perceptive and prophetic voice of Mihail Sebastian. For Two Thousand Years is a masterful book charged with the tension and paranoia that preceded one of the bloodiest convulsions in the history of the 20th century, and the terrifying thing is, it could have been written yesterday, today, tomorrow -- Colin Barrett, author of Young Skins [Praise for Mihail Sebastian's Journal 1935-1944] Deserves to be on the same shelf as Anne Frank's Diary and to find as huge a readership -- Philip Roth A humane masterpiece -- Paul Bailey Times Literary Supplement Brilliantly haunting BBC History Moving, perceptive and sharply observed... the Journal is a valuable addition not just to the canon of wartime and holocaust literature, but to that of all humanity Literary Review

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