This title comes from the award-winning translators of "Crime and Punishment", R
ichard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. Based on a real-life crime which horrifie
d Russia in 1869, Dostoevsky intended his novel to castigate the fanaticism of h
is country's new revolutionaries, particularly those known as Nihilists. Blackly
funny, grotesque and shocking, it is a disturbing portrait of five young men sa
turated in ideology and bent on destruction, and a compelling study of terrorism
.
