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St. Petersburg Noir, Paperback by Goumen, Julia (EDT); Smirnova, Natalia (EDT), ISBN 1617751014, ISBN-13 9781617751011, Brand New, Free shipping in the US Features translated crime and noir short stories set in St. Petersburg, Russia, from such authors as Sergei Nosov, Natalia Kurchatova, Eugene Kogan, and Anna Solovey.

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PublisherAkashic Books

ISBN-101617751014

ISBN-139781617751011

eBay Product ID (ePID)110917188

Product Key Features

Book TitleSt. Petersburg Noir

Number of Pages320 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2012

TopicMystery & Detective / Collections & Anthologies, Anthologies (Multiple Authors), Crime, Mystery & Detective / General

IllustratorYes

GenreFiction

AuthorNatalia Smirnova

Book SeriesAkashic Noir Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Height1 in

Item Weight11.3 Oz

Item Length8.4 in

Item Width5.3 in

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ReviewsFourteen uniformly strong stories in this outstanding noir anthology devoted to Russia's second city, St. Petersburg. With its rich if often tragic history, deep literary traditions, inspiring landscape, famous architecture, and an aging population stuffed into overcrowded 'kommunalkas' amid a post-Soviet decline and soaring crime rate, the city provides an ideal backdrop for crime fiction . . . The diversity of these skillfully crafted tales testifies to the vigor of contemporary Russian writing.

Dewey Edition23

Series Volume Number0

Dewey Decimal891.730872083584721

Table Of ContentIntroduction Part I: Gangsters, Soldiers & Patriots "Training Day" by Andrei Kivinov (Kupchino) "The Sixth of June" by Sergei Nosov (Moskovsky Prospect) "Wake Up, You're a Dead Man Now" by Vadim Levental (New Holland) "The Witching Hour" by Alexander Kudriavtsev (Dostoevsky Museum) Part II: A Watery Grave "Peau de Chagrin" by Natalia Kurchatova & Ksenia Venglinskaya (Rybatskoye) "Drunk Harbor" by Lena Eltang (Drunk Harbor) "Barely a Drop" by Andrei Rubanov (Liteyny Avenue) "Swift Current" by Anna Solovey (Kolomna) "The Phantom of the Opera Forever" by Julia Belomllinsky (Arts Square) Part III: Chasing Ghosts "The Nutcracker" by Anton Chizh (Haymarket Square) "Paranoia" by Mikhail Lialin (Lake Dolgoe) "The Hairy Sutra" by Pavel Krusanov (Moika Embankment, 48) "A Cabinet of Curiosities" by Eugene Kogan (Kunstkamera) "Hotel Angleterre" by Vladimir Berezin (Hotel Angleterre)

SynopsisFollowing Akashic's success with Moscow Noir, this new volumes explore the dark beating heart of Russia's cultural mecca., "The Russian soul is well suited to a style defined by dark, hard-edged moodiness in underground settings. With St. Petersburg, the tsar's 'Window on Europe; we get European-style existential angst as well--not to mention the scary sociopolitical realities of the new Russia ... For all sophisticated crime fiction readers." -- Library Journal Fourteen uniformly strong stories in this outstanding noir anthology devoted to Russia's second city, St. Petersburg. With its rich if often tragic history, deep literary traditions, inspiring landscape, famous architecture, and an aging population stuffed into overcrowded 'kommunalkas' amid a post-Soviet decline and soaring crime rates, the city provides an ideal backdrop for crime fiction ...The diversity of these skillfully crafted tales testifies to the vigor of contemporary Russian writing." -- Publishers Weekly Original stories by: Lena Eltang, Sergei Nosov, Alexander Kudriavstev, Andrei Kivinov, Julia Belomlinsky, Natalia Kurchatova, Kseniya Venglinskaya, Evgeniy Kogan, Anton Chizh, Konstantin Gavrilov, Vladimir Berezin, Andrei Rubanov, and others. Natalia Smirnova was born in 1978 in Moscow, Russia. In 2006 she co-founded the Goumen & Smirnova Literary Agency with Julia Goumen, representing Russian authors worldwide. She and Goumen were also the co-editors of Moscow Noir . Julia Goumen was born in St. Petersburg, Russia, in 1977. With a PhD in English, she has been working in publishing since 2001, and since 2006 has run the Goumen & Smirnoval Literary Agency with Natalia Smirnova., "The Russian soul is well suited to a style defined by dark, hard-edged moodiness in underground settings . . . For all sophisticated crime fiction readers." -- Library Journal Akashic Books continues its groundbreaking series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir . Each story is set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the city of the book. Brand-new stories by: Lena Eltang, Sergei Nosov, Alexander Kudriavstev, Andrei Kivinov, Julia Belomlinsky, Natalia Kurchatova, Ksenia Venglinskaya, Eugene Kogan, Anton Chizh, Vladimir Berezin, Andrei Rubanov, and others. From the introduction by Julia Goumen & Natalia Smirnova: "When you think of the most noir city in Russia, the name that springs to mind is St. Petersburg. This link between the place, its character, and the genre has become quite paradoxically the biggest challenge for the authors in this anthology, who must balance their work with the city's rich noir tradition and at the same time transform daily criminal headlines into a literary experience. Indeed, the tradition of noir writing in St. Petersburg features the greatest names of Russian literature. Most obviously, one thinks of the nineteenth century: Fyodor Dostoevsky, Alexander Pushkin, and Nikolai Gogol . . . The origins of this rich noir tradition come from the city's history, its urban landscape, and even the weather, as Petersburg's climate undoubtedly affects local character . . . St. Petersburg is famous for its canals, rivers, embankments, and bridges. This romantic landscape offers poetic comparisons to Venice in Italy, but also implies fluctuation, unsteadiness, fluidity that diffuses the local character and its morals . . . The city's inescapable anguish will seize every reader, resonating to the maddening clopping sound of the Bronze Horseman.", When you think of St Petersburg and noir, classic literary names immediately spring to mind: Alexander Pushkin, Nikolay Gogol, and Fyodor Dostoevsky, for starters. Then there are the more recent 20th-century classics, such as Andrey Belt and Andrey Bitov. In contemporary society, St Petersburg lavishly offers the scenery and conditions for true noir stories., St. Petersburg claims to have the strongest spirit of all Russian cities and indeed the shadowy metaphysics of this city captivate tourists and locals alike. St. Petersburg conjures up some of the greatest literary names in history, such as Alexander Pushkin, Nikolai Gogol and Fyodor Dostoevsky. Modern day St. Petersburg lavishly offers the scenery and conditions for true noir stories, and the writers in St. Petersburg Noir concoct their own worlds within this city with stories ranging from mystical to outwardly grotesque.

LC Classification NumberPG3286