Fathers and Children

<b>A 19th-century Russian masterpiece about love politics family and the tension between the new generation and the old world.</b> <br><br>Ivan Turgenev&#146;s&#160;<i>Fathers and Children</i>&#160;is a book full to&#160;bursting with life both comic and tragic. At the heart of&#160;this novel about love politics and society strong beliefs&#160;and heated disagreements illness and death is the generational&#160;divide between the young and the old. When&#160;the young university graduate Arkady and his mentor the&#160;nihilist Bazarov leave St. Petersburg to visit their aging&#160;parents in the provinces the conflict that ensues from&#160;the generations&#146; clashing views of the world&#151;the youths&#146;&#160;radicalism and the parents&#146; liberalism&#151;is both representative&#160;of nineteenth-century Russia and recognizably contemporary. At the time of its publication in 1862 the&#160;book aroused indignation in critics who felt betrayed by&#160;Turgenev&#146;s refusal to let his novel serve a single ideology; it also received a spirited defense by those who saw&#160;in his diffuse sympathies a greater service to art and to&#160;humanity. In this fresh new translation Nicolas Pasternak&#160;Slater and Maya Slater have captured Turgenev&#146;s subtle&#160;humor his pitch-perfect ear for dialogue his compassion and above all his skill as a&#160;storyteller