The Silver Bone

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Product Details
Price
$28.00  $26.04
Publisher
Harpervia
Publish Date
Pages
304
Dimensions
6.2 X 9.1 X 1.2 inches | 0.95 pounds
Language
English
Type
Hardcover
EAN/UPC
9780063352285

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About the Author

Born near Leningrad in 1961, Andrey Kurkov was a journalist, prison warder, cameraman and screenplay writer before becoming a novelist. Death and the Penguin, his first novel to appear in English, was an international bestseller and has been translated into more than thirty languages. In addition to his fiction for adults and children, he has become a commentator and journalist reporting on Ukraine for the international media. He lives in Kiev with his British wife and their three children.


Reviews

"A very intriguing and atmospheric novel by a highly accomplished writer. ... [The Silver Bone] is a fascinating read in the light of contemporary events." -- Alexander McCall Smith, Bestselling Author of The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency

"[The Silver Bone is a] fascinating series launch ... the finely drawn characters and harrowing descriptions of daily life in 1919 Kyiv leave a far more lasting impression than clever genre tricks ever could. With its earthy prose and stunning attention to detail, this stands apart." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review)

"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

"Rich and compulsive, a modern classic in the making." -- Anna Bailey, author of Where the Truth Lies

"Original and intriguing. Relocates the historical crime novel somewhere between Kafka and The Twilight Zone." -- Frank Tallis, Author of Death in Vienna and Vienna Blood

"A gripping whodunnit with surrealist flourishes ... Kurkov brings to life an overlooked and much-contested episode in Ukrainian history, capturing the brutality with which Soviet forces first attempted to establish control over the city." -- Washington Post

"In the tradition of Philip Kerr's Bernie Gunther ... Kurkov sets crime-solving against the chaos of a turbulent era -- for his Samson Kolechko, the upheaval of Ukraine in 1919, when Cossacks, the Red Army and their White opponents, and even Chinese Communists battled in streets of a Kiev darkened by power failure ... [The Silver Bone] poses haunting moral questions about defending order in perilous days, questions that reverberate a century later in Ukraine and around the world." -- David O. Stewart, Award-winning Historian and Author of The Lincoln Deception

"An atmospheric police procedural whose protagonist battles personal tragedy and a tangled system to solve his first case." -- Kirkus Reviews

"Mix[ing] elements of grim humor and surrealism ... [The Silver Bone is] a winning offbeat crime novel that begs for a sequel" -- Library Journal