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'A tremendously assured, cool, complex, slow-burn of a novel and a bleak and superbly atmospheric portrait of modern Russia.'
-- William Boyd
'A tremendously assured, cool, complex, slow-burn of a novel and a bleak and superbly atmospheric portrait of modern Russia.' --William Boyd
`An irresistible, sophisticated and compelling thriller of darkly delicious Russian corruption and decadence by a writer who truly understands where the corpses lie buried under the pure Russian snows.' --Simon Sebag Montefiore
`A chilling first novel about the slide from relative innocence into amorality. I love the honesty of the writing, and the way the furious cold of a bitter Moscow winter gradually emerges as a character in its own right.' --Julie Myerson
`Miller's taut narrative is a deft mixture of suspense, intrigue and human tragedy. Romantic love, bad faith, self-delusion, cupidity and corruption are fatally entwined in a novel that brilliantly conveys the tawdriness of life in the underbelly of modern Moscow.' --Jonathan Dimbleby
'Miller's superbly atmospheric debut novel... Elegantly written, and spot on its detail.'
--Observer
`Snowdrops assaults all your senses with its power and poetry, and leaves you stunned and addicted' --Independent
`A superlative portrait... Snowdrops displays a worldly confidence reminiscent of Robert Harris at his best' --Financial Times
`Reads like Graham Greene on steroids... Miller's complex, gripping debut novel is undoubtedly the real thing' --Daily Mail
`Miller brilliantly showcases Moscow as his novel's strutting, charismatic star... disturbing and dazzling' --Sunday Telegraph
`Superbly atmospheric...Elegantly written, and spot on its detail'
--Observer
-- William Boyd
'A tremendously assured, cool, complex, slow-burn of a novel and a bleak and superbly atmospheric portrait of modern Russia.' --William Boyd
`An irresistible, sophisticated and compelling thriller of darkly delicious Russian corruption and decadence by a writer who truly understands where the corpses lie buried under the pure Russian snows.' --Simon Sebag Montefiore
`A chilling first novel about the slide from relative innocence into amorality. I love the honesty of the writing, and the way the furious cold of a bitter Moscow winter gradually emerges as a character in its own right.' --Julie Myerson
`Miller's taut narrative is a deft mixture of suspense, intrigue and human tragedy. Romantic love, bad faith, self-delusion, cupidity and corruption are fatally entwined in a novel that brilliantly conveys the tawdriness of life in the underbelly of modern Moscow.' --Jonathan Dimbleby
'Miller's superbly atmospheric debut novel... Elegantly written, and spot on its detail.'
--Observer
`Snowdrops assaults all your senses with its power and poetry, and leaves you stunned and addicted' --Independent
`A superlative portrait... Snowdrops displays a worldly confidence reminiscent of Robert Harris at his best' --Financial Times
`Reads like Graham Greene on steroids... Miller's complex, gripping debut novel is undoubtedly the real thing' --Daily Mail
`Miller brilliantly showcases Moscow as his novel's strutting, charismatic star... disturbing and dazzling' --Sunday Telegraph
`Superbly atmospheric...Elegantly written, and spot on its detail'
--Observer
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A. D. Miller's Snowdrops is an intensely riveting psychological drama that unfolds over the course of one Moscow winter, as a young Englishman's moral compass is spun by the seductive opportunities revealed to him by a new Russia: a land of hedonism and desperation, corruption and kindness, magical dachas and debauched nightclubs; a place where secrets - and corpses - come to light only when the deep snows start to thaw - Snowdrops is a chilling story of love and moral freefall: of the corruption, by a corrupt society, of a corruptible young man. It is taut, intense and has a momentum as irresistible to the reader as the moral danger that first enchants, then threatens to overwhelm, its narrator.
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26 of 26 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Dangerously seductive,
This review is from: Snowdrops (Hardcover)
This is a superb book. It's sexy, dangerous and utterly addictive - I found myself compulsively reading it on tube escalators, unwilling to put it down just because my journey had come to an end - but also subtle, truthful and humane. Miller is a deft, elegant prose stylist, so sentence-by-sentence and paragraph-by-paragraph it's a pleasure to read. But he also manages to sustain a beautifully-controlled atmosphere of rising menace across the whole book - a mood that stays with you for a long time after you put it down. It's frequently wry and witty, full of aphorisms and sharp observations. Some of the early pages made me laugh out loud; many others brought a smile of recognition. But the end towards which it inexorably draws you is very dark indeed. It's a book about weakness and the consequences of inaction that seduces the reader every bit as effectively as its protagonist is seduced, and that left me almost as unsure of my own moral bearings.
33 of 34 people found the following review helpful:
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A.D.Miller--Snowdrops,
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This review is from: Snowdrops (Hardcover)
A.D.Miller's first novel,and set in Moscow,is a very assured
and thoroughly enjoyable debut. The novel is written as an address by Nicholas-to his future wife,detailing the events of his last winter in Russia. Nicholas is a lawyer in his 30's working on large corporate deals in Moscow.His rather drifting life changes with a chance meeting with an attractive young Russian female,Masha.During their time together Nicholas becomes enmeshed in the endemic deeply embedded corruption,from which it seems impossible to escape. Very entertainingly written ,with wry and often understated humour, the book not only gives an interesting take on Moscow,but also skillfully shows how the fundamentally decent Nicholas almost inevitably becomes part of the prevailing amorality.
28 of 29 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Le Carre meets McEwan,
By Roger Ackroyd (Lonon United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Snowdrops (Hardcover)
I read this book in two sittings which is a strong signal that I really enjoyed it.
Snowdrops offers a behind-the-curtains view of how modern Russia actually ticks through the lens of a contemporary story of money, sex and deception. The author provides some persuasive context to what may actually motivate the kind of characters that we read about in newspapers and even offers the occasional glimpse of humanity. But an interest in Russia is not essential to enjoy Snowdrops. The narrator and central character is an ambitious British 30 something lawyer called Nick. He starts out as someone you feel you may know or can at least relate to. As his morals loosen and the consequences of his actions unravel the reader is forced to reassess him and then measure their own values. Snowdrops is a classy book by a smooth writer. His prose is very authentic and his observations are nicely balanced between shocking, informative and very funny. I would recommend this book and expect it will be a big hit.
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