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The End of the Yellow House
Alan Bilton 
Swansea University Author:
Alan Bilton
Abstract
Central Russia, 1919, a sanatorium cut off by the chaos of the Russian civil war. The murder of the chief doctor sets in motion a nightmarish series of events involving mysterious experiments, the secret police, the Tsar’s double, an enigmatic ‘visitor’, giant corpses, possessed cats, sorcery, and t...
| ISBN: | 978-1838004309 |
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| Published: |
London
Watermark Press
2020
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| Online Access: |
https://www.watermarkpress.co.uk/news/now-available-end-of-the-yellow-house |
| URI: | https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa55841 |
| Abstract: |
Central Russia, 1919, a sanatorium cut off by the chaos of the Russian civil war. The murder of the chief doctor sets in motion a nightmarish series of events involving mysterious experiments, the secret police, the Tsar’s double, an enigmatic ‘visitor’, giant corpses, possessed cats, sorcery, and the overwhelming madness of war, in this surreal deconstruction of the historical novel. |
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| Keywords: |
Fiction - Historical Fiction - Russia - Psychiatry - Russian Civil War - Surrealism |
| College: |
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences |