The Innocent [electronic resource]
Szalay, David2013
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THE 2025 BOOKER PRIZE WINNING AUTHOR OF FLESH It is 1948 in Russia and Aleksandr, a major in the MGB (the forerunner of the KGB) is sent to an isolated psychiatric clinic to investigate one of the patients there. The patient is a man long presumed dead - a now severely incapacitated veteran of the Second World War, who seems unable to remember any of his past. Twenty-four years later, Aleksandr is haunted by the case. With his Stalinist faith under threat as the Cold War recedes, he interrogates his memories and the effect the case had on himself and on those he loved most. 'Psychologically intricate, flawlessly researched' The Times 'Impressive' The Sunday Times 'David Szalay... has created an extraordinary character, a KGB man you can imagine knowing or even being' Observer
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The Innocent [electronic resource] / Szalay, David.
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[S.l.] : Random House, 2013.
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1 online resource192 p.
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Electronic book.Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] Random House 2013 Available via World Wide Web.
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9781448103232
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English
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The innocent
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995632