Booker Shortlist 2011: Snowdrops – A D Miller

The ambitions of this debut novel set in Putin’s Russia are clearly signalled in the conceit of the narrator writing a confessional for his fiancée to read.  None other than Tolstoy did the same.  Further literary homage is paid to Martin Cruz Smith’s Gorky Park in the opening chapter with the discovery of a snowdrop – a corpse hidden [...]

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