Some error occured while loading the Quick View. Please close the Quick View and try reloading the page.
1919, Siberia.
Deep in the unforgiving landscape a town lies under military rule, awaiting the remorseless assault of Bolsheviks along the Trans-Siberian railway. One night a stranger, Samarin, appears from the woods with a tale of escape from an Arctic prison, insisting a cannibal is on his trail. Only Anna, a beautiful young widow, trusts his story. When a local shaman is found dead, suspicion and terror engulf the isolated community, which harbours a secret of its own . . .
Price: $18.00
Pages: 416
Publisher: Canongate Books
Imprint: Canongate Canons
Series: Canons
Publication Date:
23 August 2022
Trim Size: 7.80 X 5.08 in
ISBN: 9781786894014
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
Historical fiction
A quite extraordinary novel . . . the language is so fresh and crisp and sparkling. And what a narrative! What a story!
James Meek is the author of six novels including The People's Act of Love which was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize and won both the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize and the Scottish Arts Council Award. It has been published in more than thirty countries. Meek's latest novel The Heart Broke In was shortlisted for the Costa Book Award and he has also written two collections of short stories and a book of non-fiction, Private Island, which won the 2015 Orwell Prize. He is a Contributing Editor to the London Review of Books and writes regularly for the Guardian and New York Times. He lives in London.