Snowdrops

Snowdrops. That's what the Russians call them - the bodies that float up into the light in the thaw. Drunks, most of them, and homeless people who just give up and lie down into the whiteness, and murder victims hidden in the drifts by their killers.

When Nick worked as a high-flying British lawyer in Moscow, he was seduced by the enigmatic Masha, who led him through her city: the electric nightclubs, intimate dachas, and state-wide corruption. And as Nick fell for Masha, he found that he fell away from himself; he knew that she was dangerous, but life in Russia was addictive, and it was too easy to bury secrets - and corpses - in the winter snows...

Info autore

Born in London in 1974, A. D. Miller worked as a television producer before joining the The Economist. From 2004 to 2007 he was the magazine's Moscow correspondent, travelling widely across Russia and the former Soviet Union.

Riassunto

The Booker-nominated masterpiece: A stunning novel of moral ambiguity, uncertainty and corruption in Putin's Russia, reissued in a stylish new livery as part of Atlantic's Cult Classics series.

Prefazione

The Booker-nominated masterpiece: A stunning novel of moral ambiguity, uncertainty and corruption in Putin's Russia, reissued in a stylish new livery as part of Atlantic's Cult Classics series.

Relazione

Disturbing and dazzling Sunday Telegraph

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: A. D. Miller, A. D. (author) Miller, A.D. Miller, Miller A. D.
• Editore: Atlantic Books
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 05.04.2018
• EAN: 9781786495044
• ISBN: 978-1-78649-504-4
• Serie: Cult Classics; Atlantic Cult Classics; Atlantic Cult Classics
• Categorie: Narrativa > Romanzi; FICTION / Historical / General, Historical fiction, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Political, FICTION / Cultural Heritage, FICTION / Psychological, Thriller / suspense, Narrative theme: Interior life, Narrative theme: Politics, Political / legal thriller, Fiction: general and literary