Turkish Gambit
by Boris Akunin
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/near fine
- ISBN 10
- 029764551X
- ISBN 13
- 9780297645511
- Seller
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Synopsis
BORIS AKUNIN is the pen name of Grigory Chkhartishvili, who was born in the republic of Georgia in 1956. A philologist, critic, essayist, and translator of Japanese, he published his first detective stories in 1998 and quickly became one of the most widely read authors in Russia. He has written eleven Erast Fandorin novels to date, which have sold more than eight million copies in Russia and been translated into nearly two dozen languages. He lives in Moscow. ANDREW BROMFIELD was born in Hull in Yorkshire, England, and is the acclaimed translator of the stories and novels of Victor Pelevin. He also translated into English Boris Akunin’s first two Erast Fandorin mysteries, The Winter Queen and Murder on the Leviathan . From the Hardcover edition.
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- Bookseller
- shedlightbooks (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- sl 6629
- Title
- Turkish Gambit
- Author
- Boris Akunin
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- near fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- ISBN 10
- 029764551X
- ISBN 13
- 9780297645511
- Publisher
- Weidenfeld & Nicholson
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2005
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