Darkness at Noon

<p><b>A brilliant new translation of Koestler's long-lost original manuscript. A chilling and unforgettable 20th century classic.</b><br><br>From a prison cell in an unnamed country run by a totalitarian government Rubashov reflects. Once a powerful player in the regime mercilessly dispensing with anyone who got in the way of his party&#146;s aims Rubashov has had the tables turned on him. He has been arrested and he&#146;ll be interrogated probably tortured and certainly executed.<br><i><br>Darkness at Noon </i>is as gripping as a thriller and a seminal work of twentieth-century literature. Published in Great Britain in 1940 it was feted by George Orwell went on to be translated into thirty languages and is considered the finest work of pre-eminent European master Arthur Koestler. And yet the novel&#146;s worldwide reputation has for over seventy years been based on the first incomplete and inexpert English translation &#150; Koestler&#146;s original manuscript was lost when he fled the German occupation of Paris in 1940.<br><br>In 2016 a student discovered that long-lost manuscript in a Zurich archive. At last with the publication of this new translation of the rediscovered original Koestler&#146;s masterpiece can be experienced afresh and in its entirety for the first time.<br><br>THE NEW TRANSLATION BY PHILIP BOEHM</p>