Classic C20 novel about totalitarian socialism by Arthur Koestler (before he went mad). Kind of similar ideas to 1984. The author personally knew politburo members liquidated in Stalin's purges and was himself held under sentence of death in Franco's Spain during the civil war. Although he went pretty much insane afterwards, and started believing all sorts of odd things, Arthur Koestler was one of the first writers to draw attention to the unfolding genocide of the Jews and Romany in the early years of WW2.
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