Michael Wallner: The Russian Affair, Kartoniert / Broschiert
The Russian Affair
- Original title: Die russische Affäre
- Publisher:
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 04/2012
- Binding:
- Kartoniert / Broschiert
- Language:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9780307475039
- Item number:
- 9718094
- Volume:
- 402 Pages
- Weight:
- 304 g
- Format:
- 204 x 133 mm
- Thickness:
- 23 mm
- Release date:
- 3.4.2012
- Note
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Caution: Product is not in German language
Blurb
With bravura storytelling, stunning authenticity, and unforgettable characters, The Russian Affair brings readers into a world of love, intrigue and espionage in the midst of the Cold War.
Twenty-nine-year-old Anna Viktorovna lives in Moscow with her young son and her father, a once popular and respected poet who has fallen into disgrace because of his dissident views. Her husband, a junior officer in the Red Army, is on active duty and living seven time zones away. When she meets Alexey Bulgyakov, a married and powerful Soviet official who is nearly twice her age, her life begins to look a little brighter. Yet their burgeoning romance is irrevocably threatened when a KGB colonel forces Anna to spy on Alexey, who is suspected of disloyalty to the state. Though she loathes the notion of double-crossing, she is forced to comply. But Anna isn't the only character playing a double game.
Biography
Michael Wallner, geboren 1958 in Graz, war Schauspieler am Wiener Burgtheater und am Schillertheater in Berlin. Arbeit als Opern und Schauspielregisseur, u. a. in Hamburg, Wien, Bern und Düsseldorf. Romanveröffentlichungen. Auszeichnung mit dem Literaturpreis der Stadt Wetzlar. Der Autor liebt als freier Schriftsteller in Berlin.
