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Moscow Noir has received a *STARRED* review from Publishers Weekly
Moscow has been chomping at the bit to enter the Noir Series--with the intention of perpetrating extreme Russian menace.
Brand-new stories by:Alexander Anuchkin, Igor Zotov, Gleb Shulpyakov, Vladimir Tuchkov, Anna Starobinets, Vyacheslav Kuritsyn, Sergei Samsonov, Alexei Evdokimov, Ludmilla Petrushevskaya, Maxim Maximov, Irina Denezhkina, Dmitry Kosyrev, Andrei Khusnutdinov, and Sergei Kuznetsov..
Launched with the summer '04 award-winning best seller Brooklyn Noir, Akashic Books continues its groundbreaking series of original noir anthologies. Each book is comprised of all-new stories, each one set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the city of the book.
The more you watch Moscow, the more it looks like a huge chameleon that keeps changing its face--and it isn't always pretty. Following Akashic's international success with London Noir, Delhi Noir, Paris Noir, and others, the Noir Series explores this fabled and troubled city's darkest recesses.
FROM THE INTRODUCTION:
The deeper we delved into Moscow's soul-chilling debris, the more vividly it arose before us in all its bleak and mystical despair. Despite its stunning outward luster, Moscow is above all a city of broken dreams and unrealized utopias, and all manner of scum oozes through the gap between dream and reality . . . Moscow Noiris an attempt to turn the tourist Moscow of gingerbread and woodcuts, of glitz and big money, inside out; an attempt to show its fetid womb and make sense of the desolation that reigns there.
Natalia Smirnova (coeditor) was born in 1978 in Moscow. In 2006, together with Julia Goumen, she founded Goumen&Smirnova Literary Agency representing Russian authors worldwide.
Julia Goumen (coeditor) was born in St. Petersburg, Russia, in 1977. She holds a PhD in English and has worked in publishing since 2001.
Moscow Noir
