Snowdrops - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 7020097227 ISBN 13: 9787020097227

Synopsis

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...

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Review

Assaults all your senses with its power and poetry, and leaves you stunned and addicted. * Independent * Disturbing and dazzling. * Sunday Telegraph * Complex, gripping... * Daily Mail * Totally gripping. * The Times * A superlative portrait of a country in which everything has its price, Snowdrops displays a worldly confidence * Financial Times *

Book Description

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.

Edition details

• Language: Chinese
• ISBN 10: 7020097227
• ISBN 13: 9787020097227
• Binding: Paperback