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St. Petersburg Noir by Goumen, Julia; Smirnova, Natalia (Editor) is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is St. Petersburg Noir about?
"The Russian soul is well suited to a style defined by dark, hard-edged moodiness in underground settings. With St. Petersburg, the tsarвЂTMs '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 Goum
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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Goumen, Julia; Smirnova, Natalia (Editor)
- Publisher
- Akashic Books
- Published
- 2012
- Language
- EN
- Category
- work of fiction
- Rating
- 3.19 / 5 (34 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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