The Cossacks - Leo Tolstoy

The Cossacks by Leo Tolstoy / ISBN 9780241573778 / 272-page hardback from Penguin

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Dmitry Andreich Olenin, in the hope of escaping the hollowness of his privilege, joins the army and heads to the Caucasus. There among the foothills he will meet the Cossacks: a people he considers to be at one with the land. In their company he will hunt, he will drink, he will fall in love and, slowly, he will begin to understand that between people, between cultures, there is often a space that cannot be traversed...

'It is the richness of Tolstoy's genius that strikes us most in this story' Virginia Woolf