Turgenev was a major 19th century Russian novelist. His novel Fathers and Sons is his best-known work. Rubin was Turgenev's first post Russian work. It tells the story on a man in his 20's torn between his unhappy life in Europe and his love of his barbaric homeland. Turgenev shows a real nostalgia for the 1840's in this novel. | Rudin by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev, Paperback | Indigo Chapters