The Story of Crime and Punishment
Illustrations by Sonja Bougaeva
A daring retelling of one of literature's darkest stories
You should go to a street corner and get down on your knees and tell the whole world: “I have sinned.”
Raskolnikov is a poor student living in St Petersburg. Desperate to escape his poverty, he murders his pawnbroker and her sister, and flees with a few watches and bits of jewellery. Although at first nobody suspects him, his own conscience plagues him incessantly – and it isn’t long before a highly intelligent police detective by the name of Petrovich begins to have his doubts about Raskolnikov’s innocence, and is determined to make him confess.
Translated from the Hebrew by Stuart Schoffman
104 pp
Published 30/10/2014
ISBN 9781782690146
Pushkin Children’s Special Hardback
£14.99
About Save the Story
The Story of Captain Nemo is one of ten titles in the Save the Story series published by Pushkin Children’s in 2013 and 2014. Save the Story is a library of favourite stories from around the world, retold for today’s children by some of the best contemporary writers. The stories they retell span cultures (from Ancient Greece to nineteenth-century Russia), time and genres (from comedy and romance to mythology and the realist novel), and they have inspired all manner of artists for many generations.
Save the Story is a mission in book form: saving great stories from oblivion by retelling them for a new, younger generation.
The Save the Story series includes:
Don Juan by Alessandro Baricco
Cyrano de Bergerac by Stefano Benni
The Nose by Andrea Camilleri
Gulliver by Jonathan Coe
The Betrothed by Umberto Eco
Captain Nemo by Dave Eggers
Gilgamesh by Yiyun Li
King Lear by Melania G. Mazzucco
Antigone by Ali Smith
Crime and Punishment by A. B. Yehoshua