The stolen heart
Kurkov, Andrei2025
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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.
Main title:
The stolen heart / Andrey Kurkov ; translated from the Russian by Boris Dralyuk.
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Imprint:
London : MacLehose Press, 2025.
Collation:
315 pages : map (black and white) ; 25 cm.
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Notes:
Translated from the Russian.
ISBN:
9781529426533 (hbk)
Dewey class:
891.735AFMF
LC class:
PG3482.8.U6756
Local class:
MYS
Language:
EnglishRussian
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BRN:
4061609