Dovran Babayev

this novel is truly a work of art, it is the quintessential crime novel, with not only an intriguing plot, where every chapter builds upon the previous, but also an incredibly well realized environment and characters, where I personally could not help but sympathize with the protagonist in his struggle with his inner demons and his desperate struggle to keep up appearances of normalcy and innocence as he grows more weary and disheveled by the day. Furthermore, this book explores a few though provoking concepts in moderate detail that will leave a person thinking and reflecting on said ideas. However what I really enjoyed was the brilliant dialogue between characters, my favorite scene being when Raskolnikov had a sort of a "battle of wits" in the police station with Svidrigailov, which got intense and heated very quickly. Overall, this is a must read for anyone who is even remotely interested in Russian Literature.