{"product_id":"the-stolen-heart","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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eYet 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTranslated from the Russian by Boris Dralyuk\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReviews for The Silver Bone - Longlisted for the International Booker Prize\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Wildly enjoyable . . . A glorious aural portrait of a city in dangerous flux . . . I finished The Silver Bone wishing to read more' Guardian\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Buchserien.de","offers":[{"title":"Neuware","offer_id":53794873082194,"sku":"9781529431063","price":20.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0615\/7002\/3593\/files\/unnamed_9fc8c12c-b0a0-40ae-bbfc-7547a35049a7.jpg?v=1781860938","url":"https:\/\/www.buchserien.de\/products\/the-stolen-heart","provider":"Buchserien.de","version":"1.0","type":"link"}