{"product_id":"9781529426533-the-stolen-heart-the-kyiv-mysteries","title":"The Stolen Heart: The Kyiv Mysteries","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor: Andrey Kurkov\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\nFormat: Hardback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\nNumber of Pages: 320\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSamson 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 fiancee 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 Dralyuk    Reviews 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":"Book Grocer","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47086596325530,"sku":"9781529426533","price":20.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0558\/1625\/7690\/files\/9781529426533-us-300.jpg?v=1770603984","url":"https:\/\/castlebooks.com.au\/products\/9781529426533-the-stolen-heart-the-kyiv-mysteries","provider":"Castlebooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}