num_pages: 250
description: J M Coetzee's latest fiction centres around a Russian novelist, exiled in Dresden who returns to St Petersburg in 1869 to collect the effects of his dead step son to find himself trapped between the machinery of the state and the stirrings of rebellion.
language: English
title: The master of Petersburg
titlecomplete: The master of Petersburg
genres: Russia, Literature, Fiction, Historical Fiction, South Africa, 20th Century, Novels, Africa, African Literature, Nobel Prize
ratings_count: 3734
awards: awardedAt: 788947200000
name: Irish Times International Fiction Prize, awardedAt: 788947200000
name: Commonwealth Writers' Prize
category: Best Book in Africa
publisher: Secker & Warburg