{"product_id":"the-stolen-heart-9781529431063","title":"The Stolen Heart","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSamson 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. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eYet no sooner has he got started than his live-in fiancee 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTranslated from the Russian by Boris Dralyuk\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReviews for \u003ci\u003eThe Silver Bone\u003c\/i\u003e - Longlisted for the International Booker Prize\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAndrey Kurkov is often called Ukraine's greatest living writer, and it is a gift for crime fiction fans that he writes in this genre \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWildly enjoyable . . . A glorious aural portrait of a city in dangerous flux . . . I finished \u003ci\u003eThe Silver Bone\u003c\/i\u003e wishing to read more \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Quercus Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51863359160663,"sku":"9781529431063","price":14.39,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781529431063.jpg?v=1759920396","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-stolen-heart-9781529431063","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}