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The Vanishing Futurist

✍ Scribed by Charlotte Hobson

Publisher: Faber & Faber
Year: 2016
Tongue: English
Weight: 153 KB
Category: Fiction
ISBN: 0571234860

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✦ Synopsis

When twenty-two-year-old Gerty Freely travels to Russia to work as a governess in early 1914, she has no idea of the vast political upheavals ahead, nor how completely her fate will be shaped by them. Yet as her intimacy with the charismatic inventor, Nikita Slavkin, deepens, she's inspired by his belief in a future free of bourgeois clutter, alight with creativity and sleek as a machine.

In 1917, revolution sweeps away the Moscow Gerty knew. The middle classes - and their governesses - are fleeing the country, but she stays, throwing herself into an experiment in communal living led by Slavkin. In the white-washed modernist rooms of the commune the members may be cold and hungry, but their overwhelming feeling is of exhilaration. They abolish private property and hand over everything, even their clothes, to the collective; they swear celibacy for the cause.

Yet the chaos and violence of the outside world cannot be withstood for ever. Nikita Slavkin's sudden...

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