![]() ![]() In the course of researching it, I discovered the concept of the human "snowdrop": a beautiful name for a horrible thing. It seemed to me that the winter was an oddly unexamined aspect of Russian life-everyone knows it's cold and snowy-that deeply affects the way people live and think and that the ways Muscovites cope with the snow tell you something about who they are. Working as a foreign correspondent in Russia, I wrote an article about the role of snow in the life of Moscow. Where did the idea for the book come from? The question of the book is, how does it happen? In other words, how does the seemingly normal, thirty-something narrator, Nick Platt, come to be complicit in very bad deeds? It's a story of moral degradation You know something bad is going to happen in this book: you find that out on the very first page, though you're not sure exactly what. You've described Snowdrops as a "moral thriller". ![]()
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