The Gift John Stack our capacity for deceit and

our capacity for deceit and corruption

Stolen from his family

But as criminal barrister Michael Devlin is about to discover

wit and humanity to a story that has never ceased to tantalise people

'To write such a captivating

The Gift John Stack our capacity for deceit andThe Gift is the phantasmal autobiography of Fyodor Godunov Cherdynstev, a writer living in the closed world of Russian intellectuals in Berlin shortly after the First World War. This gorgeous tapestry of literature and butterflies tells the story of Fyodor's pursuits as a writer. Its heroine is not Fyodor's elusive and beloved Zina, however, but Russian prose and poetry themselves.