My affair with Stalin

by SIMON SEBAG-MONTEFIOR

Philip Roth meets Evelyn Waugh in a blackly comic portrayal of prep-school adolescence. Motefiore creates a young anti-hero as hilarious as Just William, as monstrous as Stalin himself, whose rite of passage shows what happens when a game of power grows into a dangerous obsession.

Genres: Fiction, British Literature, Russia

Hardcover

First published January 1, 1997

Reviews

[Rob Lewan · Rating 2 out of 5]

It did have a very original story but it was just odd. The beginning was kind of all over the place.

[Julian King · Rating 5 out of 5]

No need for a summary of content here - an earlier review is excellent on this. The aspect of My Affair with Stalin I want especially to praise is its wonderful evocation of the life of a prep-school boy in the 1970s: I was there, and thanks to Montefiore, I've just been back.

Funny, sad, horrific, wonderful! A brilliant book; read it!

[Khairul Hezry · Rating 5 out of 5]

Hilarious! A young boy copies Stalin's political manuevering's in order to survive at school.

[Sahar · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very original and interesting. One of a kind.