Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev

"My favorite novel is Ivan Turgenev's Fathers and Sons, a 200-page ravishing knockout of a book that explains just about everything you need to know about families, love, heartache, religion, duels and the institution of serfdom in 19th-century Russia, not to mention advice on how to seduce your housekeeper's young daughter. In short, it's a Russian masterpiece, one written so beautifully and with such economy, that when you finish reading it you feel a little shaken and a little stirred. A vodka martini on the front porch might be in order." -Gary Shteynga ; NPR Fathers and Sons is an 1862 novel by Ivan Turgenev, and is one of the most acclaimed Russian novels of the 19th century. It might be regarded as the first wholly modern novel in Russian literature novel and is also the first Russian work to gain prominence in the Western world, eventually gaining the approval of well established novelists Gustave Flaubert, Guy de Maupassant, and Henry James. A True Classic of Russian Literature that Belongs on Every Bookshelf!