«This is a dense and many-layered novel. To borrow Virginia Woolf's remark about Middlemarch, Jaan Kross is a novelist for grownups.»
Doris Lessing, The Independent

«Professor Marten's Departure defies easy categorization. It offers the reader entry into a distinctive historical milieu while simultaneously providing insight into our own times.»
Houston Chronicle

«A fascinating historical novel. Highly recommended.»
Library Journal

Born in 1920 in Estonia, Jaan Kross was arrested by the Soviets in 1946 and spent nine years in exile and labor camps in the Soviet Union's eastern regions. He has published eleven works of fiction as well as four volumes of poetry. Kross' books have been translated into twenty-two languages and have sold more than one million copies wordlwide.