num_pages: 160
description: The bestselling Booker Prize-winning author of The Sense of an Ending trains his laser-bright prose on the collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe.Stoyo Petkanov the deposed Party leader is placed on trial for crimes that range from corruption to political murder. Petkanov's guiltand the righteousness of his opponentswould seem to be self-evident. But as brilliantly imagined by Barnes the trial of this cunning and unrepentant dictator illuminates the shadowy frontier between the rusted myths of the Communist past and a capitalist future in which everything is up for grabs.
language: English
title: The Porcupine
publisher: Vintage