{"product_id":"the-stolen-heart-andrey-kurkov-9781529426540","title":"The Stolen Heart","description":"Samson 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. But 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.   Yet no sooner has he got started than his live-in fiancée 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.   But 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.   Translated from the Russian by Boris DraylukReviews for The Silver Bone - Longlisted for the International Booker Prize\"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\"Wildly enjoyable . . . A glorious aural portrait of a city in dangerous flux . . . I finished The Silver Bone wishing to read more\" Guardian","brand":"Quercus Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51339329175840,"sku":"9781529426540","price":9.34,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0753\/2812\/7264\/files\/9781529426540_2449248.jpg?v=1773362403","url":"https:\/\/bookcorner.com\/products\/the-stolen-heart-andrey-kurkov-9781529426540","provider":"The Book Corner","version":"1.0","type":"link"}