Short-listed for one of the most prestigious literary awards in Spain before bei
ng made into a successful film, The Faint-hearted Bolshevik has, over the fiftee
n years since its first edition, become an undisputed classic of contemporary Sp
anish literature. One morning in a traffic jam on his way to work, a driver is d
istracted and slams into the car in front. When the woman driving the other car
reacts with a torrent of abuse out of all proportion to the incident, the driver
cracks and decides to teach her a lesson, by dedicating his whole summer to rui
ning this foul woman's life.
But his plans for revenge are thrown by the sudd
en appearance of Rosana, his intended victim's compelling teenage sister, and he
finds himself and his base instincts severely tested ...Caught up in this impos
sible affair, the man's thoughts turn in moments of weakness to that famous phot
o of the last Tsar's daughters, as he tries to put himself in the place of the B
olshevik hired to kill the beautiful Grand Duchess Olga; a man who was surely, j
ust like him, a victim of his own faint-heartedness.
