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Turkish Gambit
by Akunin, Boris
- Used
- as new
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- As New/As new
- ISBN 10
- 029764551X
- ISBN 13
- 9780297645511
- Seller
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Eynsham, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2004. First edition. Hardback. As New/As new. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 2004. First edition. Book condition: near fine and unread. Dust jacket condition: near fine and unclipped. The Russo-Turkish war is at a critical juncture, and Erast Fandorin, broken-hearted and disillusioned, has gone to the front in an attempt to forget his sorrows. Captured by the Turks, he wins his freedom in a game of backgammon, before finding himself the unlikely rescuer of Varvara Suvorova, a `progressive` Russian woman trying to make her way to the Russian headquarters to join her fiancé. Fandorin's efforts to steer clear of affairs of state are thwarted when a traitor is discovered in the Russian camp. Within days, Varvara's fiancé has been accused of treason, a Turkish victory looms on the horizon, and there are rumours that one of Lady Astair's Azazel orphans may be making his own bid for power. Our reluctant gentleman sleuth will need to resurrect all his dormant powers of detection if he is to unmask the traitor, help the Russians to victory and smooth the path of young love in this, the third, sparkling page-turner from Boris Akunin.
Synopsis
BORIS AKUNIN is the pen name of Grigory Chkhartishvili, who was born in the republic of Georgia in 1956. A philologist, critic, essayist, and translator of Japanese, he published his first detective stories in 1998 and quickly became one of the most widely read authors in Russia. He has written eleven Erast Fandorin novels to date, which have sold more than eight million copies in Russia and been translated into nearly two dozen languages. He lives in Moscow. ANDREW BROMFIELD was born in Hull in Yorkshire, England, and is the acclaimed translator of the stories and novels of Victor Pelevin. He also translated into English Boris Akunin’s first two Erast Fandorin mysteries, The Winter Queen and Murder on the Leviathan . From the Hardcover edition.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Ariadne Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1302804
- Title
- Turkish Gambit
- Author
- Akunin, Boris
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- New
- Jacket Condition
- As new
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 029764551X
- ISBN 13
- 9780297645511
- Publisher
- Weidenfeld & Nicolson
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2004
- Keywords
- Modern Fiction,Boris Akunin
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern Fiction;
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