num_pages: 256
description: Returning to St. Petersburg after the death of his stepson, Dostoyevsky battles grief, epilepsy, an obsession with his stepson's landlady, and eventually a demonic conspiracy in order to get to the cause of the young man's death. 25,000 first printing. $25,000 ad/promo.
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: Viking Adult