# The Keeper Of Antiquities

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- Authors: [Yury Dombrovsky](https://www.bookquiver.com/yury-dombrovsky)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2012-12-18

## Description

The Keeper of Antiquities is simultaneously one of the great Russian modern novels and a key to understanding the terrible Stalinist purges of the late 1930s. Set far from Moscow in the remote Kazakhstan capital of Alma-Ata, The Keeper of Antiquities begins with a leisurely, almost scholarly air - like a devious story by Borges. But very soon we find ourselves watching with horror as professional rivalry between the keeper of the town's museum and the chief librarian turns into a deadly struggle for control over the meaning of the past - and therefore over the present.

## Editions

### The Keeper Of Antiquities

- Publisher: Harvill Secker
- ISBN: 978-18-4655-675-3
- Pages: 288
- Published: 2012-12-18
- Language: en_GB