{"product_id":"the-stolen-heart-the-kyiv-mysteries","title":"The Stolen Heart: The Kyiv Mysteries","description":"\u003cp\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\/p\u003e\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTranslated from the Russian by Boris Drayluk\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReviews for The Silver Bone - Longlisted for the International Booker Prize\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Andrey Kurkov is often called Ukraine's greatest living writer, and it is a gift for crime fiction fans that he writes in this genre\" New York Times\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Wildly enjoyable . . . A glorious aural portrait of a city in dangerous flux . . . I finished The Silver Bone wishing to read more\" Guardian\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MacLehose Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56473977094468,"sku":"9781529426540","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0914\/8402\/9252\/files\/9781529426540.jpg?v=1772789486","url":"https:\/\/inkandember.store\/products\/the-stolen-heart-the-kyiv-mysteries","provider":" Ink \u0026 Ember","version":"1.0","type":"link"}