Snowdrops - Rilegato

A. D. Miller

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ISBN 10: 1848874529 ISBN 13: 9781848874527

Casa editrice: Atlantic Books, 2011

Riassunto

A. D. Miller's Snowdrops is an intensely riveting psychological drama that unfolds over the course of one Moscow winter, as a young Englishman's moral compass is spun by the seductive opportunities revealed to him by a new Russia: a land of hedonism and desperation, corruption and kindness, magical dachas and debauched nightclubs; a place where secrets - and corpses - come to light only when the deep snows start to thaw... Snowdrops is a chilling story of love and moral freefall: of the corruption, by a corrupt society, of a corruptible young man. It is taut, intense and has a momentum as irresistible to the reader as the moral danger that first enchants, then threatens to overwhelm, its narrator.

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'A tremendously assured, cool, complex, slow-burn of a novel and a bleak and superbly atmospheric portrait of modern Russia.'
-- William Boyd

'A tremendously assured, cool, complex, slow-burn of a novel and a bleak and superbly atmospheric portrait of modern Russia.' --William Boyd

`An irresistible, sophisticated and compelling thriller of darkly delicious Russian corruption and decadence by a writer who truly understands where the corpses lie buried under the pure Russian snows.' --Simon Sebag Montefiore

`A chilling first novel about the slide from relative innocence into amorality. I love the honesty of the writing, and the way the furious cold of a bitter Moscow winter gradually emerges as a character in its own right.' --Julie Myerson

`Miller's taut narrative is a deft mixture of suspense, intrigue and human tragedy. Romantic love, bad faith, self-delusion, cupidity and corruption are fatally entwined in a novel that brilliantly conveys the tawdriness of life in the underbelly of modern Moscow.' --Jonathan Dimbleby

'Miller's superbly atmospheric debut novel... Elegantly written, and spot on its detail.'
--Observer

`Snowdrops assaults all your senses with its power and poetry, and leaves you stunned and addicted' --Independent

`A superlative portrait... Snowdrops displays a worldly confidence reminiscent of Robert Harris at his best' --Financial Times

`Reads like Graham Greene on steroids... Miller's complex, gripping debut novel is undoubtedly the real thing' --Daily Mail

`Miller brilliantly showcases Moscow as his novel's strutting, charismatic star... disturbing and dazzling' --Sunday Telegraph

`Superbly atmospheric...Elegantly written, and spot on its detail'
--Observer

L'autore

Born in London in 1974, A D Miller studied literature at Cambridge and Princeton. He worked as a television producer before joining the The Economist. From 2004 to 2007 he was the magazine's Moscow correspondent, travelling widely across Russia and the former Soviet Union. He is the author of the acclaimed family history The Earl of Petticoat Lane (Heinemann, 2006). Snowdrops is his first novel. He lives in London with his wife and children.

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• Editore: Atlantic Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1848874529
• ISBN 13: 9781848874527
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 288