| The Investigator Contributor(s): Khemlin, Margarita (Author) |
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ISBN: 1784379662 ISBN-13: 9781784379667 Publisher: Glagoslav Publications B.V. OUR PRICE: $33.29 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: November 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Historical - General - Fiction | Mystery & Detective - Police Procedural - Fiction | Mystery & Detective - Private Investigators |
| Physical Information: 0.88" H x 5" W x 8" (1.09 lbs) 340 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The Investigator is set in Soviet Ukraine in the early 1950s. With Stalin at the helm, the post-war Soviet Union is struggling to rebuild and to heal the nation of its multiple wounds. Plots and conspiracies abound and challenges to socialist values, real and imagined, proliferate. A young woman is murdered in a typical Soviet town. In the spirit of the era everyone is a suspect. The investigator of the title sets out to solve the crime. A former intelligence officer who seeks to embody the ideals of the young Soviet Union, he introduces the reader to a polyphony of alternative voices that, together with his own, weave the unique fabric of this striking novel. Margarita Khemlin Margarita Khemlin is a Jewish-Russian author and winner of the Russian Booker Prize and the Big Book Prize. Khemlin began with a modest dishwashing job in a caf decades ago while working hard to fulfill her writing dream. She never gave up and many manuscripts later she is a prolific and celebrated novelist in today's Russia. Since 2012 Khemlin is also one of the jurors of The O'Henry Award in the USA |