Fathers and Children
by Ivan Turgenev
“Nothing is sacred in this legendary clash between the values of the past and the void of the future.”
When Arkady returns home with the defiant nihilist Bazarov, his family's quiet estate becomes the front line of an explosive generational war. This timeless masterpiece captures the raw friction between the comfort of tradition and a radical ideology that threatens to destroy it all.
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