Pravda

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Publication Year:
2008

ISBN-13: 9780547346922

<DIV><B>Dark family secrets come to light in this novel of &ldquo;nearly Dickensian proportions&rdquo; set in Paris, New York, and St. Petersburg (<I>The</I><I>New Yorker</I>).</B><BR /><BR /> Thirty-two-year-old Gabriel Glover arrives in St. Petersburg from London to find his Russian mother dead in her apartment. Reeling from grief, Gabriel and his twin sister, Isabella, arrange the funeral&mdash;without contacting their manipulative and self-indulgent father, who is off living his own decadent life in France.<BR /> &#160;<BR /> But unbeknownst to the twins, there is another family member out there. Their mother long ago abandoned a son, Arkady. Now he has grown into a pitiless predator, and is determined to claim his birthright. Aided by an ex-seminarian whose heroin addiction is destroying him, Arkady sets out to find the siblings and reveal the dark secret hidden from them their entire lives.<BR /> &#160;<BR /> Winner of the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize and longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, <I>Pravda </I>is a darkly funny and compulsively readable novel about love, loss, and the destructive legacy of deceit from the acclaimed author of <I>Let Go My Hand</I>.<BR /> &#160;<BR /> &ldquo;A novel so vivid it glows in the dark&mdash;like truth.&rdquo; &mdash;<I>The Washington Post</I></DIV>