The Coronation: A Fandorin Mystery by Boris Akunin (English) Paperback Book

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From Russia's bestselling and most celebrated crime fiction writer, Boris Akunin, The Coronation casts Fandorin in a swashbuckling tale of abduction and intrigue, set during the build-up to the coronation of Tsar Nicholas II

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From Russia's bestselling and most celebrated crime fiction writer, Boris Akunin, The Coronation casts Fandorin in a swashbuckling tale of abduction and intrigue, set during the build-up to the coronation of Tsar Nicholas II Boris Akunin has been hailed as Russia's answer to both Agatha Christie and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle for his beloved Fandorin mystery series. After five years spent abroad building up a business as something of a private investigator, the handsome, stuttering Fandorin is back in Moscow--and in for a case that entangles him with the highest echelons of Romanov royalty. Grand Duke Georgii Alexandrovich arrives in Moscow with three of his children for the coronation of Tsar Nicholas II, who is fated to become the last Emperor of Russia. During an afternoon stroll in the park, Georgii's daughter Xenia is dragged away by bandits, only to be rescued by an elegant gentleman and his Japanese sidekick. The passing heroes introduce themselves as Erast Petrovich Fandorin and Masa, but panic ensues when the party realizes that four-year-old Mikhail has been snatched in the confusion. A ransom letter arrives from an international criminal demanding the handover of the Count Orlov, an enormous diamond on the royal scepter which is due to play a part in the coronation. Can the gentleman detective find Mikhail in time? The Coronation is a fantastically entertaining and deftly plotted take on the hostage novel, not to be missed.

Author Biography

Boris Akunin is the pen name of Grigory Chkhartishvili, who was born in the Republic of George in 1956. A philologist, critic, essayist, and translator of Japanese, Akunin published his first detective novel in 1998 and has gone on to become one of the most widely read authors in Russia. He is the author of the Fandorin mysteries, including The Winter Queen, which was a finalist for the CWA Silver Dagger Award, and the Sister Pelagia series. He lives in London, Paris, and Andalusia.

Review

Praise for The Coronation: "Akunin's brilliance lies in taking the elements of a classic detective story and imbuing them with a poignant emotional complexity."--Sunday Times (UK) "Fandorin is there to provide the solution, rescue the missing child and--in common with the reader--have a lot of fun."--Times (UK) "A novel as crammed with delights as the Tsarina's jewel box."--Daily Telegraph (UK) "Enjoyable and very fast-paced. Akunin's sense of place is undeniably vivid . . . The Coronation may be my favorite of the Fandorin novels so far . . . A very good read."--Crime Segments "Every single one of these Fandorin books are supreme fun, and this is no exception. They indeed get better and better with each one. Akunin's writing is sprightly, very witty, and supremely literate. The novels are exciting, hilarious, full of adventure, and very, very clever . . . Akunin has a superbly enjoyable style: it's idiosyncratic in the same way that Andrea Camilleri's style is . . . The Coronation is very highly recommended indeed--as are all his books. They're great fun, full of excitement and adventure, wonderful characters, and are highly intellectually engaging as well. What more could you want?"--EuroCrime (UK) Praise for Boris Akunin: "Brimming with adventure and extraordinary vitality."--Anne Perry, on The State Counsellor "A relentless page-turner. The 19th century that Mr. Akunin depicts is pulsing with irresistible energy. From dastardly terrorists to sultry femme fatales, Akunin's Moscow is a porto-noir paradise cut through with a decidedly Russian sense of futility . . . Fun and entertaining."--New York Journal of Books, on The State Counsellor "It is difficult to convey the breadth of influence that Boris Akunin has on Russian society . . . In scope, think of Akunin as the J.K. Rowling of Russia--in style, perhaps somewhere between Dorothy Dunnett and Robert Ludlum."--Daily Beast

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Praise for The Coronation: "Akunin's brilliance lies in taking the elements of a classic detective story and imbuing them with a poignant emotional complexity." -- Sunday Times (UK) "Fandorin is there to provide the solution, rescue the missing child and--in common with the reader--have a lot of fun." -- Times (UK) "A novel as crammed with delights as the Tsarina's jewel box." -- Daily Telegraph (UK) "Enjoyable and very fast-paced. Akunin's sense of place is undeniably vivid . . . The Coronation may be my favorite of the Fandorin novels so far . . . A very good read." -- Crime Segments "Every single one of these Fandorin books are supreme fun, and this is no exception. They indeed get better and better with each one. Akunin's writing is sprightly, very witty, and supremely literate. The novels are exciting, hilarious, full of adventure, and very, very clever . . . Akunin has a superbly enjoyable style: it's idiosyncratic in the same way that Andrea Camilleri's style is . . . The Coronation is very highly recommended indeed--as are all his books. They're great fun, full of excitement and adventure, wonderful characters, and are highly intellectually engaging as well. What more could you want?" -- EuroCrime (UK) Praise for Boris Akunin: "Brimming with adventure and extraordinary vitality." --Anne Perry, on The State Counsellor "A relentless page-turner. The 19th century that Mr. Akunin depicts is pulsing with irresistible energy. From dastardly terrorists to sultry femme fatales, Akunin's Moscow is a porto-noir paradise cut through with a decidedly Russian sense of futility . . . Fun and entertaining." -- New York Journal of Books , on The State Counsellor "It is difficult to convey the breadth of influence that Boris Akunin has on Russian society . . . In scope, think of Akunin as the J.K. Rowling of Russia--in style, perhaps somewhere between Dorothy Dunnett and Robert Ludlum." -- Daily Beast

Excerpt from Book

I heard the sound of footsteps approaching rapidly from behind and looked round in surprise. At that very instant a blow of prodigious force came crashing down on my head. I caught a glimpse of the face, distorted in incredible fury, of the bearded man I had seen not long before as I slumped to the ground and lost consciousness for a second. I say 'for a second' because when I raised my head, which felt as if it were filled with lead, off the ground, the bearded man was only a few steps away. He threw Mikhail Georgievich aside, grabbed Her Highness by the arm and started dragging her back past me. Mademoiselle froze on the spot in bewilderment and I felt as if I had turned to stone. I raised one hand to my forehead, wiped away something wet and looked at it - it was blood. I didn't know what he had hit me with, brass knuckles or a lead cudgel, but the trees and bushes all around were swaying like ocean waves in a storm. The bearded man gave a brigandish whistle and a black carriage harnessed to a pair of black horses emerged from round the corner that we had just turned. The driver, wearing a broad oilskin cloak, pulled back on the reins with a cry of 'Whoah!' and two other men, also dressed in black, jumped out of the carriage as it was still moving and came running towards us. 'This is a kidnapping, that's what it is,' a very calm, quiet voice stated somewhere inside me.

Description for Sales People

Grove has designed striking new covers for Akunin's Erast Fandorin novels, a beautiful, collectible package. Since Boris Akunin's first Erast Fandorin novel, The Winter Queen , published in Russia in 1998, the series has become a worldwide phenomenon, selling over 18 million copies internationally. Random House published The Winter Queen in translation in 2003, selling over 60,000 copies. Akunin is one of the most widely read novelists in Russia and is much-admired in the global literary community both for his writing and for his political outspokenness. The New Yorker did a major profile of Akunin a few years ago, and Ruth Rendell was among his notable fans. He traveled to New York in May 2016 for the PEN World Voices Festival and he was featured in conversation with Walter Mosley and Keith Gessen in PEN's recent "We Are the People" issue. He also has hundreds of reviews on Amazon and thousands of reviews/ratings on Goodreads. The Winter Queen was a New York Times Notable Book and a finalist for the CWA Silver Dagger. Akunin is credited with reinventing crime fiction in Russia, tapping a new market in the post-Soviet years for popular genre fiction with a literary edge. Each Fandorin novel plays with a particular sub-genre of the crime novel--from the spy story to the locked-room mystery to the political thriller ( The State Counsellor ). The seventh book in the series, The Coronation , is an enormously fun take on the hostage thriller. The first Fandorin novel published by The Mysterious Press, 2016's The State Counsellor (#6), offered Akunin's American audience the first chance to read a new Fandorin mystery for the first time in almost a decade. We also have the eighth book in the series under contract. Akunin's most recently translated title in the UK, All the World's a Stage , is a finalist (along with works by Orhan Pamuk and Ismail Kadare) for the inaugural EBRD Literature Prize, launched by the British Council and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. Akunin's reimagination of Shakespeare's most famous play, called Hamlet. A Version , had its world premiere in New York in May 2017 and received coverage in the New York Times and Time Out , among other outlets.

Details ISBN0802148409 Author Andrew Bromfield Short Title CORONATION Pages 368 Language English Translator Andrew Bromfield ISBN-10 0802148409 ISBN-13 9780802148407 Format Paperback DEWEY 891.735 Series Fandorin Mystries Year 2020 Publication Date 2020-03-17 Subtitle A Fandorin Mystery Series Number 7 Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States AU Release Date 2020-03-17 NZ Release Date 2020-03-17 US Release Date 2020-03-17 UK Release Date 2020-03-17 Publisher Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press Audience General We've got this

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