The Innocent

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A searing and gripping thriller set in Communist Russia from prize-winning novelist David Szalay.

THE 2025 BOOKER PRIZE WINNING AUTHOR OF FLESH

It is 1948 in Russia and Aleksandr, a major in the MGB (the forerunner of the KGB) is sent to an isolated psychiatric clinic to investigate one of the patients there. The patient is a man long presumed dead - a now severely incapacitated veteran of the Second World War, who seems unable to remember any of his past.

Twenty-four years later, Aleksandr is haunted by the case. With his Stalinist faith under threat as the Cold War recedes, he interrogates his memories and the effect the case had on himself and on those he loved most.

'Psychologically intricate, flawlessly researched' The Times

'Impressive' The Sunday Times

'David Szalay... has created an extraordinary character, a KGB man you can imagine knowing or even being' Observer

Book details and technical specifications

Format: Paperback / softback
ISBN13: 9780099515883
Published: August 2010

Number of pages: 192
Width: 129 mm
Height: 196 mm
Depth: 14 mm

Publisher: Vintage Publishing