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Darkness at noon

by Arthur Koestler, Daphne Hardy

Set during a totalitarian purge, this novel follows an Old Bolshevik who is imprisoned and tried for treason by the regime he helped establish, analysing the psychological toll of political disillusionment.

Accession 36147 ISBN — Publisher Random House
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