Leonid Yuzefovich

HARLEQUIN'S COSTUME (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Imagine St. Petersburg in the end of the 19th century. In the absurd and gloomy atmosphere of the tsarist Russia's old capital - where rumours spread faster than a wolf runs along Nevsky Prospect - Ivan Putilin, a crafty local detective, takes on a case of a notorious foreign diplomat murder. These are the settings of a masterfully stylised retro-detective story Harlequin's Costume by Leonid Yuzefovich, the first volume in a series whose hero is based on the real-life Ivan Putilin, the Chief of St. Petersburg Police 1866-1892. Present novel, brilliantly translated by Marian Schwartz, revolves around the real murder case taken by the author from the diaries of the famous detective. The beauty of this book is in the fact that it's up to the reader to find out who is who in this "Dostoevskian" city and as it is told by famous Russian critic Leo Danilkin: "Sieving through the text and separating the truth from the literature in it is the real pleasure derived from Yuzefovich's work."

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Glagoslav Publications B.V.
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Januar 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781782670315
• Artikelnr.: 39509886

Autorenporträt

Leonid Yuzefovich grew up in Perm, in the Ural Mountains. He is a historian with twin interests in Old Russian diplomacy and Mongolia, the country where he spent three years in the Soviet army. Autocrat of the Desert is Yuzefovich's biography of Baron Ungern-Shternberg, a Russian adventurer and anti-Bolshevik who set himself up as a warlord in Mongolia during the Russian Civil War. Yuzefovich has published many stories, essays, novels, and historical monographs, and won several prizes, including 2001 National Bestseller prize for Prince of the Wind, another installment in the Putilin trilogy, and Russia's 2009 Big Book Award for his contemporary novel Cranes and Pygmies.Since 2000s Yuzefovich works on television, writing screenplays for historical serials and works on film adaptation of his novels.