To the Hermitage
13 December 2018
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
13 December 2018
528 pages
9781447222842
Imprint: Picador
Reviews
'Charming, engaging, witty, amusing, playful and reflective' Edward Docx
‘The funniest book ever written’ Auberon Waugh