Duncan Bush's work brings to life, at times painfully, the work of the Russian poet Victor Bal, who "disappeared" under Stalinism. This surprising and original new book recalls the period by an intermingling of history and fiction which imaginative writers have always understood but that historians have rarely admitted.

Cymysgedd beiddgar o ffaith a ffuglen yn olrhain bywyd a gwaith y bardd Rwsiaidd Victor Bal, a "ddiflannodd" o dan Stalin.