The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The Brothers Karamazov (Russian: Братья Карамазовы Brat'ya Karamazovy) is the final novel by 19th century Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky.
Fyodor Dostoevsky spent nearly two years writing The Brothers Karamazov, which was published as a serial in The Russian Messenger and completed in November 1880. Fyodor Dostoevsky intended The Brothers Karamazov to be the first part in an epic story titled The Life of a Great Sinner, but he died less than four months after its publication.
The Brothers Karamazov is a passionate philosophical novel that enters deeply into the ethical debates of God, free will, and morality. The tragedy of patricide in The Brothers Karamazov becomes more poignant when seen as a reversal of this ideology... The Brothers Karamazov is a spiritual drama of moral struggles concerning faith, doubt, and reason, set against a modernizing Russia.
Fyodor Dostoevsky began his first notes for The Brothers Karamazov in April 1878. Fyodor Dostoevsky was very affected by the Russian philosopher and thinker Nikolai Fyodorovich Fyodorov. Fyodorov advocated a Christianity in which human redemption and resurrection could occur on earth through sons redeeming the sins of their fathers to create human unity through a universal family. The brothers in the story do not resurrect their father but instead are complicit in his murder, which Fyodor Dostoevsky expresses as complete human disunity. Although it was written in the 19th century, The Brothers Karamazov displays a number of modern elements. (Summary by Wikipedia)