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A New York Review Books Original

Unforgiving Years is a thrilling and terrifyingjourney into the disastrous, blazing core of the twentieth century. Victor Serge’sfinal novel, here translated into English for the first time, is at once the mostambitious, bleakest, and most lyrical of this neglected major writer’s works.

Thebook is arranged into four sections, like the panels of an immense mural or the movementsof a symphony. In the first, D, a lifelong revolutionary who has broken with theCommunist Party and expects retribution at any moment, flees through the streetsof prewar Paris, haunted by the ghosts of his past and his fears for the two finds D’s friend and fellow revolutionary Daria caught up in the defenseof a besieged Leningrad, the horrors and heroism of which Serge brings to terrifyinglife. The third part is set in Germany. On a dangerous assignment behind the lines,Daria finds herself in a city destroyed by both Allied bombing and Nazism, wherethe populace now confronts the prospect of total defeat. The novel closes in Mexico,in a remote and prodigiously beautiful part of the New World where D and Daria arereunited, hoping that they may at last have escaped the grim reckonings of theirmodern era.

A visionary novel, a political novel, a novel of adventure, passion,and ideas, of despair and, against all odds, of hope, Unforgiving Years is a rediscoveredmasterpiece by the author of The Case of Comrade Tulayev.