Unforgiving Years, a New York Review Books original, is a thrilling and scary voyage into the tragic, raging heart of the twentieth century. The final book by Victor Serge, which has been translated into English for the first time, is among the overlooked significant author's most ambitious, melancholy, and poetic creations. Like the panels of a huge painting or the movements of a symphony, the book is divided into four sections. In the first, D, a lifelong communist who has left the Communist Party and expects retaliation at any moment, runs through the streets of pre-war Paris while being haunted by the ghosts of the past and his anxieties for the future. In the second instalment, Daria, a friend and fellow revolutionary, is caught up in the defence.