{"product_id":"9781784379667","title":"The Investigator","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Investigator is set in Soviet Ukraine in the early 1950s. With Stalin at the helm, the post-war Soviet Union is struggling to rebuild and to heal the nation of its multiple wounds. Plots and conspiracies abound and challenges to socialist values, real and imagined, proliferate. A young woman is murdered in a typical Soviet town. In the spirit of the era everyone is a suspect. The investigator of the title sets out to solve the crime. A former intelligence officer who seeks to embody the ideals of the young Soviet Union, he introduces the reader to a polyphony of alternative voices that, together with his own, weave the unique fabric of this striking novel. Margarita Khemlin Margarita Khemlin is a Jewish-Russian author and winner of the Russian Booker Prize and the Big Book Prize. Khemlin began with a modest dishwashing job in a café decades ago while working hard to fulfill her writing dream. She never gave up and many manuscripts later she is a prolific and celebrated novelist in today's Russia. Since 2012 Khemlin is also one of the jurors of The O'Henry Award in the USA\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Glagoslav Publications Ltd.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47042803761392,"sku":"9781784379667","price":31.79,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781784379667_p0.jpg?v=1763728250","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781784379667","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}