Book description
St Petersburg, 1899. Obsessive gambler Rubashov has played every game
in town. Now on New Year's Eve, he finds himself on the brink of ruin,
and decides to make a bid for the ultimate rush, the biggest gamble
ever, to challenge the Devil to a game of poker.
Rubashov loses. His punishment is not to go straight to Hell (Hell
is full and has been for years), instead he is condemned to
immortality. And so begins a monumental trip through Europe, as
Rubashov encounters some of the twentieth century's most notorious characters.
CARL-JOHAN VALLGREN was born in 1964. He is the author of eight
novels, of which
The Horrific Sufferings of the Mind-reading Monster
Hercules Barefoot...
was the first novel to be appear in English. His work has been
translated into eleven languages. He lives in Stockholm.
