Read Jim Powell's blogs and other content on the Penguin Community. "The Breaking of Eggs" is the story of the curmudgeonly Feliks Zhokovski, Polish by birth, Communist at heart, who at age 61 finds that just about everything he has based his life on is crumbling. Separated from him family as a chil[...]
The novel is set between 1 January and 31 December 1991 and is narrated by Feliks Zhukovski, a naturalised Frenchman of Polish birth, who turns 61 soon after the novel starts.
Feliks, a long time Communist sympathiser, has spent most of his working life producing a travel guide to Iron Cu[...]