The Secret Sins of Gogol: A Novel of The Beloved Ukrainian Author

Ukrainian born Nikolai Gogol, called one of the four greatest Russian authors of all time, struggled his entire life between sin and salvation. He plunged from one disastrous same-sex love affair to another, and after each, he was driven almost mad with guilt. His infatuations were so intense that few people could stand his company, and yet from these sufferings and the Ukrainian folk tales he had heard as a child, he created some of the most magical stories of all time. His exploits were almost insane: buying and burning all available copies of his own first novel, traveling to Jerusalem to the tomb of Christ to search for salvation and modeling naked with his lover in Italy for a famous religious painting. All of this and more, author D.H. Gutzman captures in one of the few novels written about the legendary and outrageous author. The book is sweeping, sensual and startling!