The Innocent

ISBN-13: 9780099515883 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 192 str.

David Szalay

Opis

It was spring 1948 and Aleksandr was a major in the MGB - a forerunner of the KGB. He had an assignment: to visit Metelyev Log, a rural psychiatric clinic run by Professor Lozovsky and his wife, Nadezhda. 25 years later, in the dawn of detente, he interrogates his memories of the case and tries to trace its effects."

Recenzje

A psychologically intricate, flawlessly researched tale of Stalin's legacy through the eyes of a disillusioned old communist. It felt as English as Le Carre with its elegant Cold War scene-setting and quiet but intense emotional range. Melissa Katsoulis Times

O autorze

David Szalay is the author of four previous works of fiction: Spring, The Innocent, London and the South-East, for which he was awarded the Betty Trask and Geoffrey Faber Memorial prizes, and All That Man Is, for which he was awarded the Gordon Burn prize and Plimpton Prize for Fiction, and shortlisted for the Man Booker prize. Born in Canada, he grew up in London, and now lives in Budapest.