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I'm curious to see why this Man Booker Prize (short list) nominee has such a low rating (by GR standards).
I really enjoyed this book. Set in a recent snow-bound Russian winter, a 'literary thriller' where an English, through an act of kindness and trying to do the good thing, finds himself caught up in legally questionable activities. The author is a Russian correspondent for The Economist.
Despite not having any first hand knowledge of Russia, I felt it evoked powerfully the "Wild East" of post-Glasnost Russia - and this is one of the book's great strengths. The other being that the story is a compelling, well written page turner.The book is written as if Nicholas, the English expat ...
Snowdrop (n):An early-flowering bulbous plant, having a white pendent flower. Moscow slang. A corpse that lies buried or hidden in the winter snows, emerging only in the thaw. Nick Platt is an English lawyer living in Moscow during the wild Russian oil boom. Riding the subway on a balmy September da...
It seems like initials rather than first names are a token for success in the English speaking literature. Let's think about J.R.R. Tolkien, P.G. Wodehouse, H.G. Wells, T.S. Eliot, W.H. Auden and, more recently, to J.K. Rowling.This is probably what A.D. (Andrew Dylan? Annus Domini? Arkady Dandy?) M...
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