{"product_id":"9781529426540","title":"The Stolen Heart","description":"Author: Andrey Kurkov\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781529426540\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Quercus Books\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 23 Jun 2026\u003cbr\u003ePages: 320 Format: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\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. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eYet 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.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eTranslated from the Russian by Boris Drayluk\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eReviews for \u003ci\u003eThe Silver Bone\u003c\/i\u003e - Longlisted for the International Booker Prize\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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\" \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Wildly enjoyable . . . A glorious aural portrait of a city in dangerous flux . . . I finished \u003ci\u003eThe Silver Bone\u003c\/i\u003e wishing to read more\" \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67954071437470,"sku":"ADS-9781529426540","price":24.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781529426540.jpg?v=1794048540","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781529426540","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}