The Stolen Heart

Samson Kolechko Has Been Assigned A Most Perplexing Case - Though It Is Mostly Perplexing Because Its Hard To Understand Why Selling The Meat Of Ones 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 Fiancã©E Nadezhda Is Abducted By Striking Railway Workers Who Object To The Census Shes 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, Its No Wonder The Meat Case Takes A Back Seat.But It Is In The Pursuit Of That Petty-Fogging, Seemingly Mundane Matter That Samsons Fate Lies - And Nadezhdas Too, For The Two Are Inextricably Entwined.Translated From The Russian By Boris Draylukreviews For The Silver Bone - Longlisted For The International Booker Prizeandrey Kurkov Is Often Called Ukraines Greatest Living Writer, And It Is A Gift For Crime Fiction Fans That He Writes In This Genre New York Timeswildly Enjoyable . . . A Glorious Aural Portrait Of A City In Dangerous Flux . . . I Finished The Silver Bone Wishing To Read More Guardian