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Lädt ... The Investigatorvon Margarita Khemlin
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The Investigator is set in Soviet Ukraine in the early 1950s. With Stalin at the helm, the post-war Soviet Union is struggling to rebuild and to heal the nation of its multiple wounds. Plots and conspiracies abound and challenges to socialist values, real and imagined, proliferate. A young woman is murdered in a typical Soviet town. In the spirit of the era everyone is a suspect. The investigator of the title sets out to solve the crime. A former intelligence officer who seeks to embody the ideals of the young Soviet Union, he introduces the reader to a polyphony of alternative voices that, together with his own, weave the unique fabric of this striking novel. Margarita Khemlin Margarita Khemlin is a Jewish-Russian author and winner of the Russian Booker Prize and the Big Book Prize. Khemlin began with a modest dishwashing job in a caf decades ago while working hard to fulfill her writing dream. She never gave up and many manuscripts later she is a prolific and celebrated novelist in today's Russia. Since 2012 Khemlin is also one of the jurors of The O'Henry Award in the USA Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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 Google Books — Lädt ...GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)891.735Literature Literature of other languages Literature of east Indo-European and Celtic languages Russian and East Slavic languages Russian fiction 1991–Klassifikation der Library of Congress [LCC] (USA)BewertungDurchschnitt: (4.25)
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Margarita Khemlin is a Russian-Jewish author born in Ukraine, and this novel was shortlisted for the Russian Booker and the Russian Big Book Prize. It’s set in Chernigov, Ukraine, and it tells the story of Mikhail Ivanovich Tsupkoy (Mishka) who is the investigator of the title, and the narrator.
On the first page we learn that Mishka was in Soviet Intelligence during the Great Patriotic War (i.e. WW2) and that now he’s with the police force in the small town of Chernigov working as an investigator (i.e. a detective). And we learn that while the usual procedure for serious crimes like murder is to bring in a criminal investigator from the Criminal Investigation Department or the Prosecutor’s Office, that in the case of Lilia Vorobeichik’s murder things didn’t work out quite like that. Mishka’s boss indulged him, a touch against the book, and so it fell to him, a humble investigator, to look into the murder as it stood. So the reader’s antennae are on alert: something is a bit suss, but is Mishka a party to it, or not?
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