Arrow in the Blue

<p>The first volume of the remarkable autobiography of Arthur Koestler, author of <em>Darkness at Noon</em>.<br /><br />In 1931, Arthur Koestler joined the Communist Party, an event he felt to be second only in importance to his birth in shaping his destiny. Before that point, he lived a tumultuous and varied existence. He was a member of the duelling fraternity at the University of Vienna; a collective farm worker in Galilee; a tramp and street vendor in Haifa; the editor of a weekly paper in Cairo; the foreign correspondent of the biggest continental newspaper chain in Paris and the Middle East; a science editor in Berlin; and a member of the North Pole expedition of the Graf Zeppelin. <br /><br />Written with enormous zest, <em>joie de vivre</em> and frankness, <em>Arrow in the Blue</em> is a fascinating self-portrait of a remarkable young man at the heart of the events that shaped the twentieth century. <br /><br />The second volume of Arthur Koestler's autobiography is<em> The Invisible Writing.</em></p>