
Snowdrops Main Edition
Author(s): A. D. Miller (Author)
- Publisher: Atlantic Books
- Publication Date: 1 Jan. 2011
- Edition: Main
- Language: English
- Print length: 288 pages
- ISBN-10: 1848874529
- ISBN-13: 9781848874527
Book Description
A. D. Miller’s Snowdrops Main Edition is an intensely riveting psychological drama that unfolds over the course of one Moscow winter, as a young Englishman’s moral compass is spun by the seductive opportunities revealed to him by a new Russia: a land of hedonism and desperation, corruption and kindness, magical dachas and debauched nightclubs; a place where secrets – and corpses – come to light only when the deep snows start to thaw…
Snowdrops is a chilling story of love and moral freefall: of the corruption, by a corrupt society, of a corruptible young man. It is taut, intense and has a momentum as irresistible to the reader as the moral danger that first enchants, then threatens to overwhelm, its narrator.
Editorial Reviews
Review
— William Boyd
‘A tremendously assured, cool, complex, slow-burn of a novel and a bleak and superbly atmospheric portrait of modern Russia.’ –William Boyd
`An irresistible, sophisticated and compelling thriller of darkly delicious Russian corruption and decadence by a writer who truly understands where the corpses lie buried under the pure Russian snows.’ –Simon Sebag Montefiore
`A chilling first novel about the slide from relative innocence into amorality. I love the honesty of the writing, and the way the furious cold of a bitter Moscow winter gradually emerges as a character in its own right.’ –Julie Myerson
`Miller’s taut narrative is a deft mixture of suspense, intrigue and human tragedy. Romantic love, bad faith, self-delusion, cupidity and corruption are fatally entwined in a novel that brilliantly conveys the tawdriness of life in the underbelly of modern Moscow.’ –Jonathan Dimbleby
‘Miller’s superbly atmospheric debut novel… Elegantly written, and spot on its detail.’
–Observer
`Snowdrops assaults all your senses with its power and poetry, and leaves you stunned and addicted’ –Independent
`A superlative portrait… Snowdrops displays a worldly confidence reminiscent of Robert Harris at his best’ –Financial Times
`Reads like Graham Greene on steroids… Miller’s complex, gripping debut novel is undoubtedly the real thing’ –Daily Mail
`Miller brilliantly showcases Moscow as his novel’s strutting, charismatic star… disturbing and dazzling’ –Sunday Telegraph
`Superbly atmospheric…Elegantly written, and spot on its detail’
–Observer
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