The Unpossessed City Tapa dura - 2008
de Jon Fasman
In this taut, atmospheric novel by the author of The New York Timesbestseller The Geographer's Library, a young American finds himselfadrift in Russia amid murderous bureaucrats, Central Asian mobsters,and a conspiracy to sell Soviet bioweapons to the highest bidder.
Jim Vilatzer was going nowhere working in hisparents' restaurant, sleeping in his childhood bedroom untilhe ran up gambling debts that forced him to go somewherefar away fast. He uses his Russian-language skills (learnedfrom his émigré grandparents) to cadge a job in Moscow findingand interviewing survivors of the Gulag. At first, he onlyfinds that they are well hidden and leery of sharing their horrificstories, but he also discovers that he's falling in love withtheir homeland. He is intoxicated by Moscow's brooding,ironic atmosphere, its vast reservoir of entrepreneurial energy,its otherworldly churches and majestic subways. On any givenday, petty indignities are more than offset by random acts ofkindness.
Jim's taste for gambling is satisfied merely by livingin a city that teems with risk and promise. So he blithely acceptsa big win when a chance meeting with a lovely aspiring actressleads not only to romance but also to her grandfather, a concentrationcamp survivor who does actually want to share hisstory. Soon Jim is on a roll, scoring interviews with four othersurvivors in as many days, learning harrowing and fascinatingthings about bygone atrocities and feeling like he has finallyfound where he belongs.
But his apparent success has earned him the attentionof Russia's Interior Ministry and the CIA. Jim has becomean unwitting cog in a scheme to spirit Soviet scientists and theirdeadly secrets out of Russia and into the hands of the highestbidder. Pursued ruthlessly by both sides, he must flee again,this time to the lawless border country, where an economist-cum-mobster is preparing to peddle the world's most dangeroustechnologies to whichever terrorists can muster the cash first.
Like Donna Leon's novels of Venice or John Burdett'sBangkok series, The Unpossessed City makes of its setting anintricate, irresistible character. With taut, ingenious plottingand incisive prose, Fasman engages our most visceral fears andthrows brilliant light on our most primal drives to feel that webelong, to find love, to become better than we are.
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- Título The Unpossessed City
- Autor Jon Fasman
- Encuadernación Tapa dura
- Edición First Edition
- Páginas 339
- Volúmenes 1
- Idioma ENG
- Editorial Penguin Press, NY
- Fecha de publicación 2008-10-30
- ISBN 9781594201905 / 1594201900
- Peso 1.3 libras (0.59 kg)
- Dimensiones 9.1 x 6.2 x 1.3 pulgadas (23.11 x 15.75 x 3.30 cm)
- Época de 18 a UP años
- Cursos 13 - UP
- Library of Congress subjects Suspense fiction
- Número de catálogo de la Librería del Congreso de EEUU 2008027002
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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