To the Hermitage
06 July 2011
Imprint: Picador
Synopsis
To the Hermitage tells two stories. The first is of the narrator, a novelist, on a trip to Stockholm and Russia for an academic seminar called the Diderot Project. The second takes place two hundred years earlier and recreates the journey the French philosopher Denis Diderot made to Russia at the invitation of Catherine the Great, a woman whose influence...
Details
06 July 2011
512 pages
9781447205678
Imprint: Picador
Reviews
'Charming, engaging, witty, amusing, playful and reflective' Edward Docx
‘The funniest book ever written’ Auberon Waugh