St. Petersburg Noir
Natalia Smirnova & Andrei Kivinov & Sergei Nosov & Vadim Levental & Alexander Kudriavtsev & Natalia Kurchatova & Ksenia Venglinskaya & Lena Eltang & Andrei Rubanov & Anna Solovey & Julia Belomllinsky & Anton Chizh & Mikhail Lialin & Pavel Krusanov & Eugene Kogan & Vladimir Berezin & Julia Goumen
Book 1 of Akashic Noir Series
Language: English
Publisher: Akashic Books
Published: Aug 7, 2012
Description:
Following Akashic's success with Moscow Noir, this new volumes explore the dark beating heart of Russia's cultural mecca. "The Russian soul is well suited to a style defined by dark, hard-edged moodiness in underground settings. With St. Petersburg, the tsar’s 'Window on Europe,; we get European-style existential angst as well—not to mention the scary sociopolitical realities of the new Russia ... For all sophisticated crime fiction readers." Library Journal Fourteen uniformly strong stories in this outstanding noir anthology devoted to Russia's second city, St. Petersburg. With its rich if often tragic history, deep literary traditions, inspiring landscape, famous architecture, and an aging population stuffed into overcrowded 'kommunalkas' amid a post-Soviet decline and soaring crime rates, the city provides an ideal backdrop for crime fiction ...The diversity of these skillfully crafted tales testifies to the vigor of contemporary Russian writing." Publishers Weekly Original stories by: Lena Eltang, Sergei Nosov, Alexander Kudriavstev, Andrei Kivinov, Julia Belomlinsky, Natalia Kurchatova, Kseniya Venglinskaya, Evgeniy Kogan, Anton Chizh, Konstantin Gavrilov, Vladimir Berezin, Andrei Rubanov, and others. Natalia Smirnova was born in 1978 in Moscow, Russia. In 2006 she co-founded the Goumen & Smirnova Literary Agency with Julia Goumen, representing Russian authors worldwide. She and Goumen were also the co-editors of Moscow Noir. Julia Goumen was born in St. Petersburg, Russia, in 1977. With a PhD in English, she has been working in publishing since 2001, and since 2006 has run the Goumen & Smirnoval Literary Agency with Natalia Smirnova.