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Snowdrops

A. D. Miller

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English
Atlantic Books
23 May 2018
Snowdrops. That's what the Russians call them - the bodies that float up into the light in the thaw. Drunks, most of them, and homeless people who just give up and lie down into the whiteness, and murder victims hidden in the drifts by their killers.

When Nick worked as a high-flying British lawyer in Moscow, he was seduced by the enigmatic Masha, who led him through her city: the electric nightclubs, intimate dachas, and state-wide corruption. And as Nick fell for Masha, he found that he fell away from himself; he knew that she was dangerous, but life in Russia was addictive, and it was too easy to bury secrets - and corpses - in the winter snows ...

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Imprint:   Atlantic Books
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Edition:   Main
Dimensions:   Height: 198mm,  Width: 129mm,  Spine: 20mm
Weight:   281g
ISBN:   9781786495044
ISBN 10:   178649504X
Series:   Atlantic Cult Classics
Pages:   288
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Born in London in 1974, A. D. Miller worked as a television producer before joining the The Economist. From 2004 to 2007 he was the magazine's Moscow correspondent, travelling widely across Russia and the former Soviet Union.

Reviews for Snowdrops

Disturbing and dazzling * Sunday Telegraph * Totally gripping * The Times * Assaults all your senses with its power and poetry, and leaves you stunned and addicted * Independent * Complex, gripping * Daily Mail * A superlative portrait of a country in which everything has its price, Snowdrops displays a worldly confidence * Financial Times *


  • Long-listed for IMPAC DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD 2013 (UK)
  • Short-listed for The Man Booker Prize 2011 (UK)

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