David Szalay

The Innocent

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It is 1948 and Aleksandr, a major in the MGB (the forerunner of the KGB) is sent to an isolated psychiatric clinic to investigate one of the patients there. The patient is a man long presumed dead - a now severely incapacitated veteran of the Second World War, who seems unable to remember any of his past. Twenty-four years later, Aleksandr is haunted by the case. With his Stalinist faith under threat as the Cold War recedes, he interrogates his memories and the effect the case had on himself and on those he loved most.'David Szalay...has created an extraordinary character, a KGB man you can imagine knowing or even being' Observer'Impressive..… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-4481-0323-2
EAN: 9781448103232
Produktnummer: 14794701
Verlag: Vintage Digital
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
Seitenangabe: 192 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 722 KB

Über den Autor

David Szalay is the author of three previous novels: Spring, The Innocent and London and the South-East, for which he was awarded the Betty Trask and Geoffrey Faber Memorial prizes. Raised in London, he has lived in Canada and Belgium, and is now based in Budapest. In 2013 he was named as one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists.