The Stolen Heart: The Kyiv Mysteries - SIGNED & DATED

Kurkov, Andrey

ISBN 10: 1529426537 / ISBN 13: 9781529426533

Published by MacLehose Press, 2025

About this Item

1st edition, 1st printing hardback in unclipped dustjacket. SIGNED & DATED by the author on the title page with no other inscriptions. Book and jacket in fine condition. Not a book club edition, ex library or a remainder. Scans available on request.

Seller Inventory # ABE-1745953574255

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Stolen Heart: The Kyiv Mysteries - SIGNED & DATED
• Publisher: MacLehose Press
• Publication Date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1529426537
• ISBN 13: 9781529426533
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

Samson Kolechko has been assigned a most perplexing case - though it is mostly perplexing because it's hard to understand why selling the meat of one's own pig constitutes a crime.

But apparently it does, and at the insistence of the Chekist secret police officer assigned to "reinforce" the Lybid police station, Samson does his diligent - if diffident - best.

Yet no sooner has he got started than his live-in fiancée Nadezhda is abducted by striking railway workers who object to the census she's carrying out. And when you factor in a mysterious thief in the police station itself, a deadly tram accident that may have been pre-meditated, and the potential reappearance of the culprit in the case of the silver bone, it's no wonder the "meat case" takes a back seat.

But it is in the pursuit of that petty-fogging, seemingly mundane matter that Samson's fate lies - and Nadezhda's too, for the two are inextricably entwined.

Translated from the Russian by Boris Dralyuk

Reviews for The Silver Bone - Longlisted for the International Booker Prize

"Andrey Kurkov is often called Ukraine's greatest living writer, and it is a gift for crime fiction fans that he writes in this genre" New York Times

"Wildly enjoyable . . . A glorious aural portrait of a city in dangerous flux . . . I finished The Silver Bone wishing to read more" Guardian

About the Authors

Born near Leningrad in 1961, Andrey Kurkov was a journalist, prison warder, cameraman and screenplay-writer before he became well known as a novelist. He received "hundreds of rejections" and was a pioneer of self-publishing, selling more than 75,000 copies of his books in a single year. His novel Death and the Penguin became an international bestseller, translated into more than thirty languages. As well as writing fiction for adults and children, he has become known as a commentator and journalist on Ukraine for the international media. His work of reportage, Ukraine Diaries: Dispatches from Kiev was followed by the novels The Bickford Fuse, Grey Bees, and Jimi Hendrix Live in Lviv (longlisted for the International Booker Prize 2023), as well as his non-fiction work Diary of an Invasion (2022).

Boris Dralyuk is a literary translator and the Executive Editor of the Los Angeles Review of Books.