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James Meek - The People´s Act Of Love - 9781841957067 - KTM0001021
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The People´s Act Of Love

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Description for The People´s Act Of Love Paperback. Clean copy with some reader wear.
1919, Siberia. Deep in the unforgiving landscape a town lies under military rule, awaiting the remorseless assault of Bolsheviks along the Trans-Siberian railway. Then Samarin arrives. Appearing from the woods with a tale of escape from an Arctic prison, he says he is being chased by a cannibal. Anna, a beautiful young widow, feels something for the new arrival. Then the local shaman is found dead and suspicion and terror engulf the little town.

Product Details

Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Canongate Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Number of Pages
416
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781841957067
SKU
KTM0001021
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1

About James Meek
James Meek was born in London in 1962 and grew up in Dundee. We Are Now Beginning Our Descent is his fourth novel. The People's Act of Love (2005), won the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize, the SAC Book of the Year Award, was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize and has been translated into more than twenty languages. ... Read more

Reviews for The People´s Act Of Love
[It] has the strangeness and clarity of a dream. This is historical fiction that transcends the genre - as intense as a thriller, imagined on an epic scale.

The Times

James Meek's immense and consistently impressive narrative incorporates the bizarre-but-true extremes of post-revolutionary Russia. . . Meek keeps the sensational elements at the service ... Read more

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