{"product_id":"stolen-heart","title":"Stolen Heart","description":"\u003cp\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\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\u003e\u003cb\u003eTranslated from the Russian by Boris Dralyuk\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReviews for \u003ci\u003eThe Silver Bone\u003c\/i\u003e - Longlisted for the International Booker Prize\u003c\/b\u003e\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\" \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57395426165118,"sku":"NW9781529426533","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9781529426533.jpg?v=1778628640","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/en-usa\/products\/stolen-heart","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}