# The Stolen Heart

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- Authors: [Andreï Kourkov](https://www.bookquiver.com/andrey-kurkov)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2025-02-27

## Description

Samson Kolechko has been assigned a most perplexing case - though it is mostly perplexing because it's hard to understand why selling the meat of one's own pig constitutes a crime. But apparently it does, and at the insistence of the Chekist secret police officer assigned to " reinforce" the Lybid police station, Samson does his diligent - if diffident - best. Yet no sooner has he got started than his live-in fiancée Nadezhda is abducted by striking railway workers who object to the census she's carrying out. And when you factor in a mysterious thief in the police station itself, a deadly tram accident that may have been pre-meditated, and the potential reappearance of the culprit in the case of the silver bone, it's no wonder the " meat case" takes a back seat. But it is in the pursuit of that petty-fogging, seemingly mundane matter that Samson's fate lies - and Nadezhda's too, for the two are inextricably entwined. Translated from the Russian by Boris Drayluk Reviews for The Silver Bone - Longlisted for the International Booker Prize " Andrey Kurkov is often called Ukraine's greatest living writer, and it is a gift for crime fiction fans that he writes in this genre" New York Times " Wildly enjoyable . . . A glorious aural portrait of a city in dangerous flux . . . I finished The Silver Bone wishing to read more" Guardian

## Editions

### The Stolen Heart

- Publisher: maclehose_press
- ISBN: 978-15-2942-654-0
- Pages: 1
- Published: 2026-03-12
- Language: en_GB

### The Stolen Heart

- Publisher: maclehose_press
- Medium: audio
- ISBN: 978-15-2944-554-1
- Published: 2025-02-27
- Language: en_GB

### The Stolen Heart

- Publisher: maclehose_press
- ISBN: 978-15-2942-653-3
- Pages: 1
- Published: 2025-02-27
- Language: en_GB

### The Stolen Heart

- Publisher: maclehose_press
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-15-2942-655-7
- Published: 2025-02-27
- Language: en_GB