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The Industry of Souls by Martin Booth (1999, Hardcover) 
The Industry of Souls by Martin Booth (1999, Hardcover)

 
The Industry of Souls by Martin Booth (1999, Hardcover)

Author: Martin Booth
Publisher: St Martins Pr
Publication Date: 1999-10-01
Language: English
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-10: 0312242034
ISBN-13: 9780312242039
Product ID: EPID473241
Description: A British spy, captured in the 1950s and sent to a gulag. Eventually released, he is now 80 years old and living undercover in a little Russian village where he has become the revered schoolteacher. However, his identity has been reveale...
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Synopsis
A British spy, captured in the 1950s and sent to a gulag. Eventually released, he is now 80 years old and living undercover in a little Russian village where he has become the revered schoolteacher. However, his identity has been revealed, and he must decide whether to resume his old existence or to continue his life in Russia. This novel was shortlisted for the 1998 Booker Prize.

Details
Publication Date:1999-10-01

Size
Length:250 pages
Height:8.8 in
Width:6.0 in
Thickness:0.8 in
Weight:14.7 oz

Publisher's Note
On his 80th birthday, a British citizen arrested in the 1950s for spying in the Soviet Union looks back on his life in Russia--his harrowing life in the "gulag" and his quiet life 20 years later in the village.

Industry Reviews
"[T]his novel is often lyrical and nimble, and accomplishes the not-insignificant task of entertaining and enlightening by means of a literary narrative."
Shostak

"THE INDUSTRY OF SOULS can be remarkably moving: a morality tale, essentially, and one that reaches well beyond the obvious."
Eder

"In addition to dignity and decency, Booth's novel is also about an uprightness, or ethical fortitude, that philosopher Jacques Derrida says is possible only through hospitality toward others....While well-executed and often true to Russian reality, Booth's portrayal of [the town of] Myshkino is, ultimately, too idealistic....The group portrait in Myshkino is a weaker part of the novel. Stalinism and the gulag were not only imposed on the best of Russia's Myshkinos, they were also born out of them. Some people of Myshkino were part of the banality of Stalinist evil. And some of the cruelest citizens of the gulag...came from the Myshkinos of Russia."
Plotnitsky

"[T]his meditative, unadorned novel...raises questions about home, freedom and the meaning of a life that resonate long after the final page is turned."
New York Times Book Review - Michael Porter (12/26/1999)

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