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The Unpossessed City: A Novel (2008)

by Jon Fasman(Favorite Author)

3.25 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

1594201900 (ISBN13: 9781594201905)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Penguin Press HC, The

review 1: Beautifully written and paced, and so descriptive. While it's termed an "international thriller," I honestly felt that this was much more a character study of Jim, and a look into Post-Soviet Russia itself; with the thriller part thrown in for extra interest. One particular quote really caught my interest, as it's very descriptive of how I feel about my job sometimes. I've come back to it several times now: Jim is talking of his boss and how she deals with the survivors of the Russian labor camps, and he thinks, "it posed a particular problem of soul-steerage: cry over every tragedy and you would have no time left to do anything else. Ignore them all and you would rot from the inside."
review 2: This story was a little bit mystery, a little bit thriller, an... mored a couple of other things I can't quite put a name on. The main character was fairly likeable, and there were some interesting secondary characters. At first it was little difficult for me to keep track of who was who, but it became easier and more clear as the story went on. Like most other books that I have read with Russia as the setting, it makes me want to travel there, but it also scares me to travel there. Overall, a pretty interesting story. less

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