August 1919 - February 1920. The Red Army is making its final, triumphant surge across the tortured remains of the old Russian Empire. For the defiantly apolitical artists and aethetes at the heart of Devil's Midnight, it is a time of disruption and apocalypse, their lives pulled between narrow escapes, desperate intimacy and horrific violence. Depicted with a perfect balance of intensity and nonchalance, Devil's Midnight utlimately reveals Russia as the novel's real hero, a place of darkness, mystery and hope. Reminiscent of Nicolai Gogol' - New York Post'