Pravda ['Self Help' in the UK]

Современная русская и зарубежная проза

Автор: Докс Эдвард

Язык: английский

Год: 2008

Издатель: Houghton Mifflin Company

ISBN: 978-0-618-53440-1

Город: New York

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Аннотация

• Long-listed for the Man Booker Prize (2007)
• Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize (2007)

A sweeping transcontinental novel of secrets and lies buried within a single family
Thirty-two-year-old Gabriel Glover arrives in St. Petersburg to find his mother dead in her apartment. Reeling from grief, Gabriel and his twin sister, Isabella, arrange the funeral without contacting their father, Nicholas, a brilliant and manipulative libertine. Unknown to the twins, their mother had long ago abandoned a son, Arkady, a pitiless Russian predator now determined to claim his birthright. Aided by an ex-seminarian whose heroin addiction is destroying him, Arkady sets out to find the siblings and uncover the dark secret hidden from them their entire lives.
Winner of the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize and long-listed for the Man Booker Prize, Pravda is a darkly funny, compulsively readable, and hauntingly beautiful chronicle of discovery and loss, love and loyalty, and the destructive legacy of deceit.