by B. Akunin · OLMA-Press · tapa dura · ISBN 9785224038077
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«Vneklassnoe chtenie» is the novel by B. Akunin, published by OLMA-Press in hardback (375 pages, in Russian).
Two parallel plots: in the 18th century, a seven-year-old child prodigy witnesses a conspiracy against Catherine the Great; in the present, a plastic surgeon from Moscow's elite risks his daughter's fate to dominate the Russian pharmaceutical market. The two stories intertwine and need each other.
Novel in the «Priklyucheniya magistra» series, second instalment; this volume corresponds to the first part.
For readers of historical and mystery fiction with a command of Russian, and for followers of the «Priklyucheniya magistra» series.
Grigori Chkhartishvili, better known by his pen name Boris Akunin, is a Georgian and Russian writer residing in the United Kingdom. He is best known as a writer of historical fiction, specifically his Erast Fandorin detective novels. He is also an essayist and literary translator. Grigory Chkhartishvili has also written under pen names Anatoly Brusnikin, Anna Borisova, and Akunin-Chkhartishvili. His characters include Erast Fandorin, Nicholas Fandorin and Sister Pelagia.
