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