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Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2011 this is a cracking debut novel. Immensely addictive, I read it in two days, because I simply couldn't put it down. Rather than the storyline, which is somewhat predictable, it is the style of writing which makes this book so fascinating. Set in Putin's Moscow during a long and excruciatingly cold winter, the tale, or rather the confession is told in sharp, incisive language. The exquisite beauty of the old city contrasting painfully with the detritus of an amoral and ruthless society, the pathos of the remnants of etiquette still practised by the older Russians, the world weariness and cynicism of the "ex -pats" , contrive to make us helpless observers of a man's moral decline into corruption and deceit. Snowdrops is tense, superbly atmospheric, at times funny and highly recommended.Read More

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    Snowdrops. That's what the Russians call them - the bodies that float up into the light in the thaw. Drunks, most of them, and homeless people who just give up and lie down into the whiteness, and murder victims hidden in the drifts by their killers. Nick has a confession. When he worked as a high-flying British lawyer in Moscow, he was seduced by Masha, an enigmatic woman who led him through her city: the electric nightclubs and intimate dachas, the human kindnesses and state-wide corruption. Yet 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...

  • TheBookPeople

    A. D. Miller's award-nominated Snowdrops is a stunning, powerful and complex read that focuses on Snowdrops - what the Russians call the bodies that float up into the light in the thaw. The novel follows Nick, a high-flying British lawyer, who finds himself in dangerous territory while living in Moscow.

  • ASDA

    The debut of 2011: A stunning novel of moral ambiguity uncertainty and corruption.

  • 1848874537
  • 9781848874534
  • A. D. Miller
  • 1 September 2011
  • Atlantic Books
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 288

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