Pravda

A sweeping transcontinental novel of secrets and lies buried within a single family

Thirty-two-year-old Gabriel Glover arrives in St. Petersburg to find his mother dead in her apartment. Reeling from grief, Gabriel and his twin sister, Isabella, arrange the funeral without contacting their father, Nicholas, a brilliant and manipulative libertine. Unknown to the twins, their mother had long ago abandoned a son, Arkady, a pitiless Russian predator now determined to claim his birthright. Aided by an ex-seminarian whose heroin addiction is destroying him, Arkady sets out to find the siblings and uncover the dark secret hidden from them their entire lives.

Winner of the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize and long-listed for the Man Booker Prize, Pravda is a darkly funny, compulsively readable, and hauntingly beautiful chronicle of discovery and loss, love and loyalty, and the destructive legacy of deceit.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Mariner Books
Published: 03/19/2008
ISBN: 9780618534401
Pages: 400
Weight: 0.93lbs
Size: 8.09h x 5.90w x 0.99d

Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 11/26/2007 pg. 24
Library Journal Prepub Alert 09/15/2007 pg. 38
Library Journal 01/15/2008 pg. 81
Kirkus Reviews 01/15/2008 pg. 57
Booklist 01/01/2008 pg. 45
New York Times Book Review 03/30/2008 pg. 18
Entertainment Weekly 04/18/2008 pg. 67
New Yorker (The) 05/05/2008 pg. 77