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English
Vintage
15 September 2015
It was a piece of business that comes along once in a lifetime. If you are lucky.

A captivating tale of big money, Russian beauty and good books.

Longlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction

'Captivating' Sunday Times

'Glittering' Sunday Express

London dances to the tune of Gorsky's billions.

The most enigmatic of oligarchs, Gorsky desires and gets the best of everything and now he has his sights set on Natalia. That she is already married is an inconvenient detail.

Nick works in a shabby-chic bookshop. When Gorsky approaches him with the commission of a lifetime, Nick suddenly gains access to the world of the wealthy and the beautiful. But this privilege comes at a price and Nick finds his new life suddenly fraught with danger...
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Imprint:   Vintage
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 177mm,  Width: 127mm,  Spine: 18mm
Weight:   184g
ISBN:   9781784700706
ISBN 10:   1784700703
Pages:   288
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Vesna Goldsworthy comes from Belgrade. She began her writing life as a poet and at twenty-two performed her poetry to thirty thousand people at a football stadium. At twenty-four she moved to the UK and started writing in English, her third language. Her widely-translated books include a prize-winning poetry collection The Angel of Salonika; an internationally bestselling memoir, Chernobyl Strawberries; and the London-based novels Gorsky and Monsieur Ka. A former BBC World Service journalist, she is now an academic and occasional broadcaster.

Reviews for Gorsky

Clever... entertaining... elegant -- Rose Wild The Times It's surprising there haven't been more novels drawing on London's fascination with Russian oligarchs. But how to write about them without it all seeming a bit Jackie Collins? Vesna Goldsworthy has hit on the perfect solution with her witty novel Gorsky -- Viv Groskop Spectator Entertaining and poignant, ironic and serious, Gorsky is both a literary homage and the work of a highly original imagination. Goldsworthy is brilliant on money, clothes. romantic love and decadent sex -- and on various kinds of immigrant species. A jeu d'esprit with a heart and mind. Eva Hoffman Evocative, captivating and acutely observed -- Patricia Nicol Sunday Times Here, at last, is the 'Gatsby' for today's London - the holy city of the Russian super-rich. In a marvellously written, wickedly imagined novel, sometimes hauntingly sad and sometimes very funny, Vesna Goldsworthy evokes the loneliness which goes with sudden and gigantic wealth, as it falls upon men and women with no previous background of privilege. 'Gorsky' provides a crowded satire on the mob of hangers-on who follow the billionaires, and a clear-eyed panorama of Kensington and Chelsea as new money floods over old dignity. Neal Ascherson


  • Long-listed for Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction 2016 (UK)
  • Long-listed for Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction 2016.
  • Long-listed for Baileys Womens Prize for Fiction 2016 (UK)

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