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Bloomsbury presents The Half Life of Valery K by Natasha Pulley, read by Jot Davies.
From the author of The Watchmaker of Filigree Street and The Kingdoms, an epic Cold War novel set in a mysterious town in Soviet Russia.
In 1963, in a Siberian prison, former nuclear specialist Valery Kolkhanov has mastered what it takes to survive: the right connections to the guards for access to food and cigarettes, the right pair of warm boots, and the right attitude toward the small pleasures of life so he won’t go insane. But one day, all that changes: Valery’s university mentor steps in and sweeps him from the frozen camp to a mysterious unnamed city. It houses a set of nuclear reactors, and surrounding it is a forest so damaged it looks like the trees have rusted from within.
In City 40, Valery is Dr. Kolkhanov once more, and he’s expected to serve out his prison term studying the effect of radiation on local animals. But as Valery begins his work, he is struck by the questions his research raises. Why is there so much radiation in this area? What, exactly, is being hidden from the thousands who live in the town? And if he keeps looking for answers, will he live to serve out his sentence?
Based on real events in a surreal Soviet city, and told with bestselling author Natasha Pulley’s inimitable style, The Half Life of Valery K is a sweeping new adventure for fans of Stuart Turton and Sarah Gailey.
Reseñas de la Crítica
"Provocative, unsettling...Pulley, extrapolating out from the records of a historic Soviet research center, raises questions about scientific experimentation and the ways in which it can be manipulated for less than honorable purposes. Her dark humor, which turns on the blind faith given to Soviet authority figures despite their outlandish claims, combines with complex characters and a clear understanding of radiation science to yield an explosive blend. The chilling result feels all too plausible." (Publishers Weekly)
"Pulley adds to her impressive oeuvre with another exquisite novel. Many of the author’s trademarks are on display here: a finely-drawn period setting, a vein of dark humor, a plot blending historical fact and fiction, and a protagonist seeking to do the right thing in the face of a brutal political machine. An illuminating and immersive historical tale." (Vaseem Khan, author of The Unexpected Inheritance of Inspector Chopra)
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Deep in the trenches of Flanders Fields, men are dying in the thousands every day. So one more death shouldn't be a surprise. But then a body turns up with bizarre injuries, and Sherlock Holmes' former sidekick, Dr. John Watson - unable to fight for his country due to injury but able to serve it through his medical expertise - finds his suspicions raised.
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Watson is wonderful, amid very grim surroundings
- De L. Gutman en 03-01-18
De: Robert Ryan
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Dear Amy
- De: Helen Callaghan
- Narrado por: Michelle Ford
- Duración: 10 h y 52 m
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Margot Lewis is a teacher at an exclusive high school in the English university town of Cambridge. In her spare time, she writes an advice column, "Dear Amy", for the local newspaper. When one of Margot's students, 15-year-old Katie, disappears, the school and the town fear the worst. And then Margot gets a "Dear Amy" letter unlike any of the ones she's received before. It's a desperate plea for rescue from a girl who says she is being held captive and in terrible danger - a girl called Bethan Avery, who was abducted from the local area 20 years ago and never found.
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Stunning debut
- De Mystery Maven en 11-18-16
De: Helen Callaghan
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Suspect
- De: Michael Robotham
- Narrado por: Simon Prebble
- Duración: 11 h y 17 m
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After a woman is brutally slain, investigators bring psychiatrist Joe O'Loughlin in for expert consultation. Joe is shocked to discover the dead woman is a former patient of his who cried rape when he rebuffed her sexual advances. Citing doctor/patient confidentiality, Joe hides this information. But the truth emerges, and suddenly he is the prime suspect.
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reviewers love it or hate it -- i loved it
- De Kelly en 03-23-14
De: Michael Robotham
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Tigerman
- De: Nick Harkaway
- Narrado por: Matt Bates
- Duración: 13 h y 51 m
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Lester Ferris needs a rest. He's spent his life being shot at, and Afghanistan was the last stop on his road to exhaustion. Mancreu is the ideal place for Lester to relax. A former British colony, soon to be destroyed because of its very special version of toxic pollution. But Lester Ferris makes a friend: a street kid with a comicbook fixation who will need a home - who might, Lester hopes, become an adopted son. But in a place like Mancreu, just what sort of hero will the boy need?
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Slow start - but very touching
- De Cath en 08-25-14
De: Nick Harkaway
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Now and in the Hour of Our Death
- De: Patrick Taylor
- Narrado por: Tim Gerard Reynolds
- Duración: 17 h y 36 m
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Patrick Taylor’s first novel of the Irish Troubles, Pray for Us Sinners, introduced us to Provisional IRA bombmaker Davy MacCutcheon and the love of his life, Fiona Kavanagh. Davy planned to leave the Provos after one final mission. But the deadly mission backfired, and Davy ended up in prison. Six years later, in Now and in the Hour of Our Death, Fiona Kavanagh has found sanctuary in Vancouver, Canada. But news of a breakout at the Maze prison brings back memories she thought she’d left behind.
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The Perfect End of a Great Epic
- De J. Lindsey en 03-01-15
De: Patrick Taylor
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The Year's Top Short SF Novels 5
- De: Cory Doctorow, Ken Liu, John P Murphy, y otros
- Narrado por: Tom Dheere, Nancy Linari
- Duración: 15 h y 54 m
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Short novels are movie-length narratives that may well be the perfect length for science fiction stories. This audio collection presents the best-of-the-best short science fiction novels published in 2014 by current and emerging masters of this vibrant form of storytelling.
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Narrator sounds like Tony Danza
- De Sean en 03-05-16
De: Cory Doctorow, y otros
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Blue Monday
- Frieda Klein, Book 1
- De: Nicci French
- Narrado por: Beth Chalmers
- Duración: 11 h y 11 m
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Frieda Klein is a solitary, incisive psychotherapist who spends her sleepless nights walking along the ancient rivers that have been forced underground in modern London. She believes that the world is a messy, uncontrollable place. The abduction of five-year-old Matthew Farraday provokes a national outcry and a desperate police hunt. And when his face is splashed over the newspapers, Frieda cannot ignore the coincidence: one of her patients has been having dreams in which he has a hunger for just such a child.
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Engrossing thriller - an easy "read"
- De Hilary en 08-15-13
De: Nicci French
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Red Plenty
- De: Francis Spufford
- Narrado por: Roger Clark
- Duración: 13 h y 18 m
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Strange as it may seem, the gray, oppressive USSR was founded on a fairy tale. It was built on the 20th-century magic called "the planned economy," which was going to gush forth an abundance of good things that the lands of capitalism could never match. And just for a little while, in the heady years of the late 1950s, the magic seemed to be working. Red Plenty is about that moment in history, and how it came, and how it went away. Red Plenty is history, it's fiction, it's as ambitious as Sputnik, and as uncompromising as an Aeroflot flight attendant.
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Simple review
- De Jay J Peters en 06-24-18
De: Francis Spufford
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The Bone Clocks
- De: David Mitchell
- Narrado por: Jessica Ball, Leon Williams, Colin Mace, y otros
- Duración: 24 h y 30 m
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Following a scalding row with her mother, 15-year-old Holly Sykes slams the door on her old life. But Holly is no typical teenage runaway: A sensitive child once contacted by voices she knew only as "the radio people," Holly is a lightning rod for psychic phenomena. Now, as she wanders deeper into the English countryside, visions and coincidences reorder her reality until they assume the aura of a nightmare brought to life.
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Not Short Listed, This Time
- De Mel en 09-23-14
De: David Mitchell
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Land of the Living
- De: Nicci French
- Narrado por: Anne Flosnik
- Duración: 10 h y 58 m
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Abbie Devereaux lies flat on her back, her arms and legs tied down, her head covered with a hood. She senses the eyes that watch her. She feels the unknown hands that touch her in the dark. She knows she has been kidnapped but has little memory of her recent past. And she knows that all she has to do is stay alive, even though everything she is experiencing tells her she won't.
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A good yarn
- De Jacque en 09-15-15
De: Nicci French
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Little Darlings
- A Novel
- De: Melanie Golding
- Narrado por: Stephanie Racine
- Duración: 11 h y 51 m
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Everyone says Lauren Tranter is exhausted, that she needs rest. And they're right; with newborn twins, Morgan and Riley, she's never been more tired in her life. But she knows what she saw: that night, in her hospital room, a woman tried to take her babies and replace them with her own...creatures. Yet when the police arrived, they saw no one. Everyone, from her doctor to her husband, thinks she's imagining things. A month passes. And one bright summer morning, the babies disappear from Lauren's side in a park. But when they're found, something is different about them.
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A creepy kind of mystery!
- De Carole Wooten en 05-22-19
De: Melanie Golding
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Angelmaker
- De: Nick Harkaway
- Narrado por: Daniel Weyman
- Duración: 18 h y 11 m
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Joe Spork repairs clocks, a far cry from his late father, a flashy London gangster. But when Joe fixes one particularly unusual device, his life is suddenly upended. Joe's client, Edie Banister, is more than just a kindly old lady - she's a former superspy. And the device? It's a 1950s doomsday machine. And having triggered it, Joe now faces the wrath of both the government and a diabolical South Asian dictator, Edie's old arch-nemesis.
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A cure for the modern cynic
- De Maine Colonial 🌲 en 08-28-12
De: Nick Harkaway
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The Cleaner
- De: Elisabeth Herrmann
- Narrado por: Imogen Church
- Duración: 14 h y 23 m
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Pools of blood, scenes of carnage, signs of agonising death - who deals with the aftermath of violence once the bodies have been taken away? Judith Kepler has seen it all. She is a crime-scene specialist. She turns crime scenes back into habitable spaces. She is a cleaner. It is at the home of a woman who has been brutally murdered that she is suddenly confronted with her own past. The murder victim knew Judith's secret: as a child Judith was sent to an orphanage under mysterious circumstances - parentage unknown.
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Reader was very distracting
- De Merry Unbirthday en 10-16-17
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Doughnut
- De: Tom Holt
- Narrado por: Ray Sawyer
- Duración: 13 h y 42 m
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Things have been going pretty badly for Theo Bernstein. An unfortunate accident at work has lost him his job (and his work involved a Very Very Large Hadron Collider, so he's unlikely to get it back). His wife has left him. And he doesn't have any money. Before Theo has time to fully appreciate the pointlessness of his own miserable existence, news arrives that his good friend, a renowned physicist and Nobel laureate, has died. By leaving the apparently worthless contents of his safety deposit box to Theo, however, the professor has set him on a quest of epic proportions.
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A fun world for scifantasy fans
- De illgnosis en 06-19-13
De: Tom Holt
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At the start of the 20th century, on the edge of the Russian empire, a family prospers. It owes its success to a delicious chocolate recipe, passed down the generations with great solemnity and caution. A caution which is justified: this is a recipe for ecstasy that carries a very bitter aftertaste....
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After six years in England, Rachel has returned to Kenya and the farm where she spent her childhood, but the beloved home she'd longed for is much changed. Her father's new companion - a strange, intolerant woman - has taken over the household. The political climate in the country grows more unsettled by the day and is approaching the boiling point. And looming over them all is the threat of the Mau Mau, a secret society intent on uniting the native Kenyans and overthrowing the whites.
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New York City, 1972. Jaryk Smith, a survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto, and Lucy Gardner, a southerner, newly arrived in the city, are in the first bloom of love when they receive word that Jaryk's oldest friend has died under mysterious circumstances in a rural village in eastern India. Traveling there alone to collect his friend's ashes, Jaryk soon finds himself enmeshed in the chaos of local politics and efforts to stage a play in protest against the government—the same play that he performed as a child in Warsaw as an act of resistance against the Nazis.
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Teddy Telemachus is a charming con man with a gift for sleight of hand and some shady underground associates. In need of cash, he tricks his way into a classified government study about telekinesis and its possible role in intelligence gathering. There he meets Maureen McKinnon, and it's not just her piercing blue eyes that leave Teddy forever charmed but her mind - Maureen is a genuine psychic of immense and mysterious power.
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It has been 10 years since Abby Williams left home and scrubbed away all visible evidence of her small-town roots. Now working as an environmental lawyer in Chicago, she has a thriving career, a modern apartment, and her pick of meaningless one-night stands. But when a new case takes her back home to Barrens, Indiana, the life Abby painstakingly created begins to crack. Tasked with investigating Optimal Plastics, the town’s most high-profile company and economic heart, Abby begins to find strange connections to Barrens’s biggest scandal from more than a decade ago,
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I admit I bought this on Krysten Ritter's name
- De Toivo J Luick en 11-13-17
De: Krysten Ritter
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- Chester Johnson
- 01-02-23
Great historical fiction!
The Half Life of Valery K by Natasha Pulley is a historical fiction about the Soviet Union from the 1930's to the 1960's and the Cold War nuclear secrecy. The story mainly takes place in the 1950's and early 1960's and is centered around nuclear biological specialist Valery Kolkhanov and his trials and tribulations in the Stalinist Era USSR.
Valery was one of the millions of people rounded up by Pro Stalinist KGB and sent to one of the many Siberian Gulag prison camps for his former ties to Germany, where he attended university.
He is then given a reprieve from the rough prison camp life to put his professional skills to use studying the effects of radiation on the environment for the State. But it turns out there is more to this position than meets the eye, and uncovering its truths may prove dangerous when the secretive Soviet political machine wants it all to stay hidden.
This book was an excellent read as it expertly blends these fictional characters into the real-life nuclear secrecy of the Soviet Union. It addresses such historical topics as Soviet gulag life, racial and ethnic divisions within the Soviet satellite states, including how Ukrainians were cruelly treated at the time, the political espionage in the Soviet Union, the great lengths the Party would go through to keep its secrets, and it also addresses how cruelly same sex relationships where addressed and handled in Cold War Soviet Union.
Historical fictions usually drag me in if the character development is good, and this one is superb. A solid 4 out of 5 star read!
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- jaf
- 04-18-24
Well research and written
History woven into a credible plot and characters. Excellent narration that signals the difference between living in Russia and the West. Enjoyable lesson for anyone
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- Blue
- 12-01-23
look at this baddie I pulled by being autistic the novel
This has become a comfort listen for me, I miss shenkovs voice. Coming off the kingdoms, I didn’t realize it was historical fiction and the ending note had me reading Wikipedia articles until the early hours.
this book took my heart out and tenderized it with a KGB baton which hurt like hell but in the end made my heart softer.
i have now read all her work and I understand some people’s trepidation with pulleys character tropes, but I don't agree. shes got good character types and she types characters good, but take that with a grain of salt. I also love to read fanfiction and that’s usually the same two characters falling in love over and over again so 🤷
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- P. Grinspan
- 07-14-23
Amazing book, perfectly blending many genres
Part fictional account of life in USSR during the Cold War, part story of an unlikely friendship, love story, thriller, character study, with a small cast of characters all 3-dimensional and (with one notable exception) exceptionally relatable… It’s quite amazing really how many facets there are to this novel, and how well they intertwine. One of the best novels I’ve read in a long time, and that’s not to say good novels in general are hard to find!
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- Marcelle
- 09-10-22
A wonderful storyteller
I love her writing. She's able to describe extremely difficult issues without making one recoil in horror. This is the first of her books I know of that does not involve fantasy. The characters are well drawn and interesting. and she clearly does her research on both technical and cultural issues. Her observations on culture at the end are pointed, and sadly accurate. The narrator was excellent, no stumbles. Highly recommended.
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- just asking for some common sense
- 08-10-22
Excellent book, great characters
Natasha Pulley has written another fantastic book, and this is different than her others. This is historical fiction without elements like time travel such as she has in "The Kingdoms", also an excellent book. This story mostly takes place in Russia. Valery K has been brought from a gulag with its forced labor, to a research facility in a manufactured city where he is being brought by a former professor because he is a scientist.
The facility is researching radiation's effects on people, but Valery K realizes something is wrong and things are worse than most people there know. There is a lot of denial and deception. It is typical Cold War crap. There is interesting science in this book as well. I actually learned some things.
I'm not going to give spoilers. I love this book and have loved all of Natasha Pulley's books. She is one of the few authors that I'm willing to pre-order anything she writes. The narration is excellent. Can I give this book 6 stars?
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- D. Joseph
- 09-09-22
Fabulous story
A gripping story backdropped against impossible, frightening circumstances and led for us by two charismatic protagonists. Loved it.
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