The Half Life of Valery K

The Half Life of Valery K
Natasha Pulley
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Trade Paperback
h234 x 153mm - 384pg
23 Jun 2022 UK
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9781408885239
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The truth must come out. In 1963, in a Siberian gulag, former nuclear specialist Valery Kolkhanov has mastered what it takes to survive: the right connections to the guards for access to food and cigarettes, the right pair of warm boots to avoid frostbite, and the right attitude toward the small pleasures of life. But on one ordinary day, all that changes: Valery' s university mentor steps in and sweeps Valery from the frozen prison camp to a mysterious unnamed town hidden within a forest so damaged it looks like the trees have rusted from within. Here, Valery is Dr. Kolkhanov once more, and he' s expected to serve out his prison term studying the effect of radiation on local animals. But as Valery begins his work, he is struck by the questions his research raises: what, exactly, is being hidden from the thousands who live in the town? And if he keeps looking for answers, will he live to serve out his sentence? Based on real events in a surreal Soviet city, and told with bestselling author Natasha Pulley' s inimitable style, The Half Life of Valery K is a sweeping historical adventure.
Wildly inventive, full of eeriness and magic, and fiendishly intricate plots * The Times on The Lost Future of Pepperharrow * An awe-inspiring feat of imagination and passion * Catriona Ward on The Kingdoms * Lavish world-building and breakneck plotting . . . Clear a weekend and let yourself be absorbed * New York Times Book Review on The Kingdoms *
Natasha Pulley' s first novel The Watchmaker of Filigree Street was a Sunday Times bestseller, won a Betty Trask Award and was shortlisted for the Authors' Club Best First Novel Award. Her second novel, The Bedlam Stacks was shortlisted for the Royal Society of Literature' s Encore Award and longlisted for the Walter Scott Prize, while subsequent novels The Lost Future of Pepperharrow and The Kingdoms were published to widespread critical acclaim, cementing Natasha' s reputation as one of the most original and exciting new young writers at work. She lives in Bristol. @natasha_pulley
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9781408885239
Published: 23 Jun 2022
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format: Trade Paperback
Height: 234mm
Width: 153mm
Pages: 384

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