Futility
by William Gerhardie
233 pages~4 hrs
“A masterpiece of tragicomedy set in the sunset of Old Russia.”
Set against the backdrop of the Russian Revolution, an English narrator becomes entangled in the lives of three sisters waiting for a fortune that never seems to arrive. This witty cult classic captures the tragicomic absurdity of a world in collapse, where hope and stagnation collide in the most charmingly futile ways.
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