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  • Title: Snowdrops
  • Author: A.D. Miller
  • ISBN: 9780857895806
  • Page: 134
  • Format: Paperback

    • A stunning novel of moral ambiguity, uncertainty and corruption Snowdrops That s what the Russians call them the bodies that float up into the light in the thaw Drunks, most of them, and homeless people who just give up and lie down into the whiteness, and murder victims hidden in the drifts by their killers Nick has a confession When he worked as a high flying BritisA stunning novel of moral ambiguity, uncertainty and corruption Snowdrops That s what the Russians call them the bodies that float up into the light in the thaw Drunks, most of them, and homeless people who just give up and lie down into the whiteness, and murder victims hidden in the drifts by their killers Nick has a confession When he worked as a high flying British lawyer in Moscow, he was seduced by Masha, an enigmatic woman who led him through her city the electric nightclubs and intimate dachas, the human kindnesses and state wide corruption Yet as Nick fell for Masha, he found that he fell away from himself he knew that she was dangerous, but life in Russia was addictive, and it was too easy to bury secrets and corpses in the winter snows
    A.D. Miller
    A D Miller studied literature at Cambridge and Princeton His first novel, Snowdrops a study in moral degradation set in modern Russia was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, the James Tait Black Prize, the Los Angeles Times Book Awards, the CWA Gold Dagger and the Galaxy National Book Awards, and was longlisted for the IMPAC award It has been translated into twenty five languages His second novel, The Faithful Couple, a story of friendship and remorse, was published in 2015 He is also the author of The Earl of Petticoat Lane, an acclaimed memoir of immigration, class, the Blitz and the underwear industry that was shortlisted for the Wingate prize.A.D Miller has been The Economist s Moscow correspondent, political columnist, writer at large and correspondent in the American South in 2018 he became the magazine s culture editor In 2014 he won Travel Story of the Year at the FPA Media Awards, for a piece about 24 hours at a motorway service station He has been shortlisted three times for the David Watt Prize, for another FPA Award and for Political Commentator of the Year and Magazine Commentator of the Year at the Comment Awards He has also written for the Financial Times, Guardian, Observer, Daily Telegraph, Independent, Spectator, Literary Review, Evening Standard, Intelligent Life and 1843 He uses his initials because another novelist already had his name.


    Commentaires:

    Blair
    I actually bought this book several months ago; a handful of good reviews combined with the setting, Moscow (I've been fascinated with Russia since my teens, and wrote my university dissertation on the Russian presidency) piqued my interest, but somehow I never got around to reading it. I only remembered it after learning that it's one of the thirteen books on the longlist for this year's Man Booker Prize. Billed as 'an intensely riveting psychological drama', Snowdrops follows about a year in t [...]
    Mark
    'I smelled it before I saw it'.This is the opening line and, apart from his odd use of the word 'smelled' instead of the more usual 'smelt' which grated on me a little, it is a great way to begin this novel which is all about not only the smell that rises off this newly uncovered and, at the beginning of the novel, unknown corpse but also the gradual rise of the stench of corruption not just from the government, officialdom and thugs of 21st Century Moscow but also the way our narrator Nick, an [...]
    Cheryl
    Thank god the font was big and the lines were almost double-spaced.This story is really about Moscow. The people-characters are just props; the real characters are the city and the weather and the lawless society. “The characters are flat, stereotypical creatures, but I havent figured out if this is an intended character flaw of the narrator, or if it is the author's intention as an auteur to convey something deeper or so far hidden, or if it just simply represents workmanlike craft, and is wh [...]
    Maciek
    The Booker nomination for this novel is a surprise; essentially, it is a rather unsurprising and mostly mediocre thriller with bits of good prose, few surprises and ultimately little payoff. Why was it chosen by the Booker committee as important enough to be included in the shortlist? The structure of the novel reminded me of Martin Amis's House of MeetingsSnowdrops is an English lawyer trying to fit in contemporary Moscow, and addresses his experiences to an unnamed fiancee. The author was a fo [...]
    ·Karen·
    Dear Mr MillerMay I congratulate you on your debut novel, which I have just read and thoroughly enjoyed? It is, indeed, gripping and fairly addictive, precisely as the reviews promise. The plotting is beautifully crafted, those hints of the disaster to come are dropped to devastating effect. Thriller, yes, but a literary one too: you have a wonderfully expressive lick of language that tickles and delights, and the pleasure that your writing affords is more than the hedonistic joy of a rollicking [...]
    K.D. Absolutely
    This is my first book about Russia post-USSR meltdown. A. D. Miller is a British expat, being The Economist magazine correspondent assigned to work for 3 years in Russia in the early 2000's. His storytelling is straightforward, his sentences are short but full of sense and this story is believable. His use of Russia as a backdrop with its snow is just bewildering that reminded me of those white-everywhere scenes in Boris Pasternak's Doctor Zhivago.I have read a good chunk of Booker-winning and s [...]
    Szplug
    First off, Miller did himself no favors by bestowing upon this book—and it's a beautiful design, wintry fresh with that inveigling top photo-blend of a miniscule, bundled-up couple traipsing across a walled corner of a desolate and frigid Red Square that is slowly fading to gray—the saccharinely absurd title of Snowdrops. It's the rubric one would give to a tale of candied bunny rabbits and cavity-filled teeth—with perhaps a little meth tossed in to give it some scratch—in a laminated ch [...]
    Jovana
    Ahhh, hvala Nebesima što sam joj ugledala kraj! Ovo je takvo gubljenje vremena Ne znam kako sam došla na ideju da je čitam, i prezirem sebe što ne mogu da odustanem kad sam već počela! Ne preporučujem je. Predlažem da je dodate na listu knjiga "za izbegavanje".
    James Thane
    A British lawyer, Nicholas Platt, is working in Moscow in the hectic, free-for-all, Wild East days of the new Russia. By day he helps negotiate huge bank loans to facilitate Russia's economic development. These deals involve a number of shady characters and questionable assumptions, but Nick is caught up in the free-wheeling, anything goes climate, and whatever moral scruples he might have brought with him from the UK are quickly eroding. The same is true of his personal life as Nick gets caught [...]
    Melanie Garrett
    I first heard about this novel on The Review Show on BBC2 and was intrigued enough by the discussion to break my resolution about not buying any more books until (a) they were available for Sony eReader; and (b) I was ready to read them.But right from the exquisite jacket design, I was so gripped with this book that I decided a physical copy was in order. I picked up Sunday evening, and would have happily read it in one sitting if only life hadn’t been so tortuously in the way. As first time n [...]
    Darryl
    This novel, which was curiously shortlisted for the 2011 Booker Prize, is set in Moscow during the go-go 1990s, when the Russian economy opened up to foreign investment, and a select few became multi-millionaires. The narrator is a 38 year old British lawyer whose firm has sent him there to negotiate corporate deals and make money for the firm's clients. He sees a robbery taking place on a Moscow Metro station, and prevents a thief from robbing the purse of a young Russian beauty. Naturally, the [...]
    Igor
    Extremely shallow.It looks like the author spent some time in Moscow (and Moscow is not Russia, there is a huge difference between the two, which is not highlighted in the book), listened to a few ex-pat stories and came up with the book.Since it is not deep enough, sometimes you encounter funny moments like one of the girls telling the main character that her father worked on an ice-breaker called "Petrograd" during soviet times. Anyone with a basic knowledge of Russian history would have under [...]
    Natalie
    Oni koji traže akciju, napetost u ovoj priči neće dobiti ni doživjeti. U potrazi sam za dinamikom tako da ovdje nisam to dobila. Lijepo je pisano ali usporeno prepričavanje. Baš sam se pitala zašto ima tako nisku ocjenu na GR? o sada znam.
    Samantha Lee
    I'm genuinely surprised by how much I enjoyed this book. It's by no means a fast paced psychological thriller but it is compulsive reading and it had me wanting to turn the pages (or at list click through on the Kindle!). The story is a reflection, by the main character (Nick), of his time in Moscow as a young lawyer. It's told by way of a narrative to his fiance which in itself is interesting given the events that follow! He meets and falls in love with a Russian girl and experiences the hedoni [...]
    Lorenzo Berardi
    It seems like initials rather than first names are a token for success in the English speaking literature. Let's think about J.R.R. Tolkien, P.G. Wodehouse, H.G. Wells, T.S. Eliot, W.H. Auden and, more recently, to J.K. Rowling.This is probably what A.D. (Andrew Dylan? Annus Domini? Arkady Dandy?) Miller has thought while choosing his nom de plume: "If I do that, if I omit my birth names and replace them with capitol letters, then I have more chances of entering the pantheon of the successful no [...]
    Shovelmonkey1
    Snowdrops are the dead, who appear like the eponymous spring flower as the winter snows recede from the winter wonderland of moscow's streets. Except they are not flowers, they're frozen corpses and the difference between blooming and rotting is quite a distinct one that even the most inexperienced botanist or ardent fan of spring watch would be hard pushed to miss.None of the characters in the book are particularly likeable so you won't spend a lot of time sympathising about their plight or vod [...]
    ALPHAreader
    ‘Snowdrops’ is the debut novel from British writer, A D Miller.Nick Platt is a British lawyer living and working in Moscow, Russia. The city is a hedonistic dream – nightclubs, women and with enough money you can get anything you desire. Moscow is a playground for wealthy businessmen, ex-KGB and one lonely Pommie ex-pat. One night, Nick meets and beds two beautiful Russian women, and falls in love with one of them (‘Masha’ to her friends). To help Masha’s aunt, Nick gets involved in [...]
    Friederike Knabe
    Moscow at the turn of this century could be a dangerous place: almost anything could be bought or extracted for a price, and many people were, for one reason or another, in on some deal or scheme to get ahead in the business of money, comfort or influence. Life was also fragile, people disappeared without a trace, only to turn up as "snowdrops" during the spring thaw. With his debut novel, SNOWDROPS, AD Miller delves into the unfettered, yet also manipulated, period of early capitalism in Russia [...]
    TC
    I noticed this book when it was shortlisted for this year's Man Booker prize, and was drawn to it by the description as "an intensely riveting psychological drama" My luck with award winners is a bit mixed, and I quite liked another of the short-listed books, Pigeon English so thought I would give this a go.The book is narrated by Nicholas, in the form of a confession to his betrothed, relating the events of his last winter in Russia. He was working as a lawyer, with the transfer to Russia a pot [...]
    Lisa
    This year’s Booker shortlist has somehow passed me by, but longlisted Snowdrops interested me because it’s set in Russia and I’ve embarked on a bit of a Russian Readathon in preparation for my trip next year. However, I’m hoping that the author has taken a good deal of fictional licence with his setting, because it paints an alarming picture of post-Communist Moscow. (Ubiquitous drunken taxi-drivers, for a start!)It’s a psychological thriller, quick and easy to read, though not quite u [...]
    jeniwren
    The setting for this novel is Russia, gloomy dark and covered in snow. The tone is menacing with a heady mix of corruption which begins with our protagonist Nicholas an English lawyer and a chance meeting with two 'predatory' women. This encounter sets in motion shady dealings with Nicholas slowly losing his grip on morality. Told as a confession to his future bride to be and as a means of gaining some insight into his amoral behaviour.This is a fine debut and I was gripped from beginning to end [...]
    Jessica
    My friend Katie was on a kick to read the Man Booker shortlist this year, and she recommended this book to me. Really, Katie? I love you, but, really?This book is, I think, intended to be a noir thriller set in modern(ish)-day Moscow. Nick Platt is an ex-pat British lawyer who rescues two Russian women from a purse snatcher and takes the opportunity to boink Masha, the older sister. Nick is then pulled into some sort of scheme, but I honestly gave up before I got to a point where I could underst [...]
    Hanneke
    ‘Snow Drops’ was één van de boeken die op de shortlist stonden voor de Booker Prize 2011. Het boek geeft een fascinerend inkijkje in het moderne Russische leven. Het is verbazingwekkend te lezen hoe corruptie, bedrog, afpersing en misdadigers van allerlei rang en stand het leven van iedereen in Rusland beheersen. Als gewone burger moet je constant alert blijven en kan je alleen maar hopen dat je niet het slachtoffer wordt van een of andere zwendel, zelfs als je helemaal niet vermogend bent [...]
    Tony
    SNOWDROPS. (2011). A. D. Miller. ****. This is a first novel by this author who was the Moscow correspondent for The Economist from 2004 to 2007. It is set, primarily, in Moscow, and is the story of the involvement of Nick Platt, a lawyer for an investment firm, in two unrelated business deals. The first deal, a very large one involving the establishment of a joint venture to develop a new pumping station in the north, involved several billion dollars. Nick was involved on the sidelines on that [...]
    Mary (BookHounds)
    I was thoroughly fascinated by this book. I still can't figure out why I liked it so much since the pace of the story was slow for me, but the writing is so perfectly beautiful that it will mesmerize you. The story it written as a letter from an English lawyer named Nicholas to his fiance revealing an indiscretion that even he can't truly explain except to say that he was used by a woman that had bewitched him. Masha sails into Nicholas' life and convinces him to help complete the sale of some p [...]
    Michael Cattigan
    I really liked this book!Read it as part of the annual attempt to read at least some of the Booker books before the winner is announced and was really impressed. It is well written and the monologue voice is actually really compelling (although part of me would have liked to have seen his fiancee's - increasingly horrified I hope - reaction to his revelations!).Set in 200s Russia, it revolves around a lawyer, his relationship with a local Russian girl (described in more detail than I'd have thou [...]
    Justine
    I found the Booker furore fascinating this year, though I only felt a little involved in it as I had only, to date, read one of the books, and it was this, Snowdrops. In terms of 'literary merit' vs 'readability', well, I felt that this book had both. Sparsely and evocatively written, this book is a psychological thriller, yes, but also touches on the lies we tell ourselves and other people, about guilt, culpability and responsibility. All elements, I think, of a book with 'literary merit'.The o [...]
    Christine
    I got this book as an advance readers copy. At first, I found the book compelling and the descriptions of Moscow and its inhabitants in the early days of capitalism fascinating. As I read further, I was put off by the greed, decadence and lack of caring by and for its main character, Nick Platt. Even the landscapes as well as the writing became dismal and cold. The cover is beautiful with a woman hiding behind the cutout of a snowdrop but what I found deceiving was this book being categorized as [...]
    LeeAnn Heringer
    It is only by accident that I read anything off the Man Booker Awards, winner or short list, because they go for Literature with a capital L, difficult complex books. And this book is not the taut suspense that some reviews promised. Instead, like a Graeme Green novel, it's the tale of a man who lost himself in the expat experience. Who sees what's happening, sees his moral compass being bent, but looks away because he's in too deep, the honey trap hook has been set.In particular, the dialog is [...]
    Ruby Soames
    This would have been my Man Booker Winner and it certainly cancels out the argument of whether you can be 'readable' and 'literary' at the same time. It's a psychological thriller which has depth and intrigue, narrated by the dupe of a crime and the spurned lover of a relationship. The 'Snowdrops' of the title refer to Stalin's murder victims whose bodies were revealed as the snows started to melt in the Spring, but it's also a metaphor for what is revealed about us when love begins to thaw and [...]
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