The Age Of Longing
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: Second Impression
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded, with some chipping and wear to edges and corners, tears at back of jacket and along spine seams. Page Condition: Yellowed with age. Markings: No markings visible. Binding: Appears intact. Stickers/Labels: None visible.
Set against the backdrop of a near-future Paris on the brink of Soviet domination, The Age of Longing is a darkly prescient Cold War novel that chronicles the spiritual and political disorientation of the West in the early 1950s. Arthur Koestler — himself a former Communist and one of the twentieth century's most penetrating political minds — presents a cast of disillusioned intellectuals, idealists, and survivors grappling with the collapse of faith, both religious and ideological. At its centre is Hydie Anderson, an American Catholic who has lost her faith and falls dangerously in love with a Soviet agent, her yearning embodying the broader existential vacuum of a civilisation that has abandoned its beliefs but found nothing to replace them. The novel argues with fierce intelligence that the greatest threat to the West is not merely military conquest, but the inner emptiness that makes it incapable of resistance. Taut, cerebral, and deeply humane, it stands as one of Koestler's most compelling and underrated works of fiction.
Author: Arthur Koestler
Format: Hardback
Published: 1951, Collins
Genre: Historical fiction
Edition: Second Impression
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded, with some chipping and wear to edges and corners, tears at back of jacket and along spine seams. Page Condition: Yellowed with age. Markings: No markings visible. Binding: Appears intact. Stickers/Labels: None visible.
Set against the backdrop of a near-future Paris on the brink of Soviet domination, The Age of Longing is a darkly prescient Cold War novel that chronicles the spiritual and political disorientation of the West in the early 1950s. Arthur Koestler — himself a former Communist and one of the twentieth century's most penetrating political minds — presents a cast of disillusioned intellectuals, idealists, and survivors grappling with the collapse of faith, both religious and ideological. At its centre is Hydie Anderson, an American Catholic who has lost her faith and falls dangerously in love with a Soviet agent, her yearning embodying the broader existential vacuum of a civilisation that has abandoned its beliefs but found nothing to replace them. The novel argues with fierce intelligence that the greatest threat to the West is not merely military conquest, but the inner emptiness that makes it incapable of resistance. Taut, cerebral, and deeply humane, it stands as one of Koestler's most compelling and underrated works of fiction.