A brilliant new translation of Koestler''s long-lost original manuscript. A chilling and unforgettable 20th century classic.
From a prison cell in an unnamed country run by a totalitarian government Rubashov reflects. Once a powerful player in the regime, mercilessly dispensing with anyone who got in the way of his party-s aims, Rubashov has had the tables turned on him. He has been arrested and he-ll be interrogated, probably tortured and certainly executed.
Darkness at Noon is as gripping as a thriller and a seminal work of twentieth-century literature. Published in Great Britain in 1940, it was feted by George Orwell, went on to be translated into thirty languages and is considered the finest work of pre-eminent European master, Arthur Koestler. And yet the novel-s worldwide reputation has, for over seventy years, been based on the first incomplete and inexpert English translation - Koestler-s original manuscript was lost when he fled the German occupa
