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\u2019s aims, Rubashov has had the tables turned on him. He has been arrested and he\u2019ll be interrogated, probably d and certainly executed.<\/p>\n
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\u2019s worldwide reputation has, for over seventy years, been based on the first incomplete and inexpert English translation \u2013 Koestler\u2019s original manuscript was lost when he fled the German occupation of Paris in 1940.<\/p>\n
In 2016, a student discovered that long-lost manuscript in a Zurich archive. At last, with the publication of this new translation of the rediscovered original, Koestler\u2019s masterpiece can be experienced afresh and in its entirety for the first time.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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