In the tradition of "Gorky Park" and "The Talented Mr. Ripley" this extraordinary debut set in Moscow in the early 2000s examines the irresistible allure of sin, featuring characters whose hearts are as cold as the Russian winter.
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LONGLISTED for the 2011 Man Booker Prize for Fiction "[An] assured fiction debut....[Miller] memorably captures the city's atmosphere during the glitzy, anything-goes era that succeeded Soviet Communism....Miller's uncluttered prose and feel for the city's Wild West atmosphere are pleasures."--"The Seattle Times " "Compelling narrative voice....Andrew Miller shines in his depiction of Russian life....[and] deserves full credit for being able to transfer his knowledge to the page. He makes you see and feel the glitz, squalor, and violence of Moscow...[with] bleak beauty of his writing"--"Boston Globe " "[A]n electrifying tour of the dark side of Moscow, and of human nature.....This is a Russia gleaming with strip joints, call girls, malevolent overlords, fraudsters, overnight millionaires; but in which the old beg on snowy streets and tramps ring random doorbells seeking shelter from hypothermic death. The overriding theme is corruption and the way that
