Publisher's Synopsis
Disgraced, deposed, and driven to the 'underworld' for the crime of political incorrectness, Harry Vanikin -- formerly Professor Vanikin -- has not left the London housing estate in which he hides for seven years. Even going so far as to cover up his windows, the seventy-year-old Vanikin lives the life of a discarded shadow, going about the motions of something called life and only occasionally visited by his sister, his tormenting nephew, and his fellow residents of the run-down housing project they call home. From these fellows, however, from these similarly mad and equally rejected beings, the ashes begin to stir, and a ray of hope appears for the man who once said: I tried to teach my students the truth; no one told me the truth was no longer wanted.
Vanikin in the Underworld is the story of the furthest down and possible redemption of an educator who can't escape education.
