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...
My friend Katie was on a kick to read the Man Booker shortlist this year, and she recommended this book to me. Really, Katie? I love you, but, really?This book is, I think, intended to be a noir thriller set in modern(ish)-day Moscow. Nick Platt is an ex-pat British lawyer who rescues two Russian wo...
Thank god the font was big and the lines were almost double-spaced.This story is really about Moscow. The people-characters are just props; the real characters are the city and the weather and the lawless society. “The characters are flat, stereotypical creatures, but I havent figured out if this ...
A.D. Miller used to work in Russia. I know this because his character, Nicholas, can’t stop telling me about being an Englishman in Russia. But not in an interesting way. In a really dull and patronising way. It grated almost immediately. As for the book itself, it’s less than ok. Slightly below ave...
I was thoroughly fascinated by this book. I still can't figure out why I liked it so much since the pace of the story was slow for me, but the writing is so perfectly beautiful that it will mesmerize you. The story it written as a letter from an English lawyer named Nicholas to his fiance revealin...
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