Новинки Э. Д. Миллера

Британский журналист Эндрю Миллер провел в Москве несколько лет в середине двухтысячных, работая корреспондентом журнала «Экономист». Этот опыт лег в основу его дебютного романа «Подснежники», который попал в шорт-лист британского Букера-2011. Формально, это психологический триллер, главный герой, адвокат, влюбившийся в Москву, оказывается в центре очень сложной для…

A.D. Miller's Snowdrops is a riveting psychological drama that unfolds over the course of one Moscow winter, as a thirty-something 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...

A chilling story of love and moral freefall: of the corruption, by a corrupt society, of a corruptible 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.

When Nick worked as a high-flying British lawyer in Moscow, he was seduced by the enigmatic Masha, who led him through her city: the electric nightclubs, intimate dachas, and state-wide corruption. And as Nick fell for Masha, he found that he fell away from himself; he knew that she was dangerous, but life in Russia was addictive, and it was too easy to bury secrets - and corpses - in the winter snows...
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