Tolstoy is famous for his sprawling, thousand-plus page epics, but even so (especially?) it's through his shorter fiction that the modern reader will gain fast appreciation for the iconic writer and his classic gods-eye-view.
Hadji Murat is the notorious but mysterious Tartar chieftain that has terrorised the Russian army in the Caucasus mountains for years. But now, pressured by an inter-tribal blood feud, Hadji Murat must defect to the Russians to save his own life. And so plays out a story of a culture clashes, old scores, violence and morals. Perhaps containing some of Tolstoy’s greatest action scenes and most-haunting ending (all the more as this was his final work), this is a fantastic piece of less-common historical fiction that deals with tensions still-relevant today.
192 pages
192 pages
Tolstoy, L., FitzLyon, K. and Hughes, J. (n.d.). Hadji Murat.
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