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| Author: | Cresswell, Sophia | |
| Title: | Sam Golod | |
| Cover: | Paperback | |
| Number of Pages: |
231 |
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| Synopsis: | In post-communist St Petersburg a young Englishwoman grapples with an alien way of life, adjusting to food shortages and queues and solitary cabbage suppers. Then Natalie meets Pyotr, a painter and illegal resident who with bitter humour has invented a new deity for Russians to serve - Sam Golod, god of hunger. Seduced by Pyotr's charms and welcomed by his friends, Natalie begins to feel at home in the artists' squats of Pushkinskaya. But familiarity opens her eyes to the city's violent, lawless underbelly, and to Pyotr's links with drug-running mafyosi. When a murder is followed by the stabbing of an English friend, Natalie realises that she is dangerously out of her depth. | |
| Genre: | Literature and Fiction | |
| ID Number: |
56 |
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