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The stolen heart / Andrey Kurkov ; translated from the Russian by Boris Dralyuk.
Van Pelt Library PG3482.8.U6756 U3713 2025
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kurkov, Andreĭ, author.
- Series:
- Kurkov, Andreĭ. Kyiv mysteries ; bk. 2.
- The Kyiv mysteries ; bk. 2
- Standardized Title:
- Ukradennoe serdtse. English
- Language:
- English
- Russian
- Subjects (All):
- Murder--Investigation--Fiction.
- Murder.
- Kidnapping--Fiction.
- Kidnapping.
- Police--Fiction.
- Police.
- Corruption--Fiction.
- Corruption.
- Meat industry and trade--Fiction.
- Meat industry and trade.
- Kolechko, Samson, (Fictitious character)--Fiction.
- Kolechko, Samson.
- Ukraine--History--1917-1921--Fiction.
- Ukraine.
- Kyïv (Ukraine)--Fiction.
- Kyïv (Ukraine).
- Genre:
- Detective and mystery fiction
- Historical fiction.
- Detective and mystery fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 315 pages : map ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- London : MacLehose Press, 2025.
- Summary:
- "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 fiancee 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."--Publisher.
- Notes:
- First published in Russian as "Serdce - ne mjaso" by Folio, Kharkhiv in 2021.
- ISBN:
- 9781529431063
- 1529431069
- 9781529426533
- 1529426537
- OCLC:
- 1425108973
- Publisher Number:
- 90101764390
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