A review by ljm57
Mother by Maxim Gorky

4.0

Gorky’s book was published in 1906 and is based on a mass anti-capitalist protest held in Russia in 1902. Protestors were brutally dispersed and at the resultant trial, six of the organisers were sentenced to life in exile. The title derives from the mother of the main political dissident in the book. As the story unfolds, she slowly awakens from a life of fear, drudgery and ignorance to appreciate what it is these young radicals are rallying against. Very well written.