' Nothing I have read is more affecting than Mihail Sebastian's magnificent haunting 1934 novel For Two Thousand Years'
- Philippe Sands Guardian Books of the Year A prescient interwar masterpiece available in English for the first time' Absolutely definitively alone' a young Jewish student in Romania tries to make sense of a world that has decided he doesn't belong Spending his days walking the streets & his nights drinking & gambling meeting revolutionaries zealots lovers & libertines he adjusts his eyes to the darkness that falls over Europe & threatens to destroy him Mihail Sebastian's 1934 novel was written amid the anti-Semitism which would by the end of the decade force him out of his career & turn his friends & colleagues against him For Two Thousand Years is a lucid heart-wrenching chronicle of resilience & despair broken layers of memory & the terrible forces of history