This book is from 1998 and it was nominated for the Booker Prize. In it, we meet a former British citizen, now more or less repatriated as a Soviet/Russian citizen. We find him at the opening of the novel turning 80 and his much younger Russian wife is fondly preparing him for the small celebration of his life. From here we are taken back some fifty or so year to his arrest at the hands of the KGB in Leipzig as a suspected spy, to […]