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Детективка #1
Двоица
Шестнадцатилетняя Мишка Миронова с детства любила книги о сыщиках и теперь сама стала детективкой. Сотрудничая с полицией, она одно за другим раскрывает сложные преступления, однако в этот раз ей достается расследование не из легких: под поездом в метро погибает девушка, смерть которой на первый взгляд кажется несчастным случаем…
«Двоица» — первая часть новой детективной трилогии Максима Сонина, авторки романа «Письма до полуночи».
«Двоица» — первая часть новой детективной трилогии Максима Сонина, авторки романа «Письма до полуночи».
256 pages, Kindle Edition
Published August 9, 2021
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January 4, 2022
Mishka Mironova is only 16 years old, but the Moscow criminal police has a grudging respect for her uncommon ability to see the clues that help solving violent crimes. This time, it doesn't look like a crime at all - a girl falling on the rail in Moscow subway, an unusual selfie, a deleted detail in an Instagram account... Mishka is asked by a friend of a friend and easily blends in the student ring that the victim has belonged, but is there a way out?
Maxim Sonin, a 23-year old writer from Moscow, has caused some stir with his debut novel Letters till Midnight published by AST two years ago. Reviewers focused on the LGBTQ aspect - Letters till Midnight was apparently the first Russian book with a major publishing house that mentioned "queer relationship" in the publisher's announcement. Yet the relationship between two high school students, the two narrators, was barely sexual: the author needed these two girls to show how something that is on full display, a teacher's brazenly open pursuit of their classmates, is not seen at the close range. Small things that make a teen life - changing friendships, loving but busy parents, movies that offer escape from the daily routine, beer and cigarettes - serve as a smokescreen.
In "The Double" (Двоица), the smokescreen is different: Sonin seems to provide too much detail about the 16 years old detective family - why would the reader needs to know that Mishka's grandmother resents a certain in-law? Why Mishka's parents, patent nobodies in every respect, divorced many years ago, need to pop up unexpectedly just in time to derail the rest of Mishka's day? Why the author makes so much of Misha's Christian faith? Yet somehow everything falls eventually in place, making the protagonist, both a genius of sorts and a quintessential teen at the same time, a live person.
Maxim Sonin, a 23-year old writer from Moscow, has caused some stir with his debut novel Letters till Midnight published by AST two years ago. Reviewers focused on the LGBTQ aspect - Letters till Midnight was apparently the first Russian book with a major publishing house that mentioned "queer relationship" in the publisher's announcement. Yet the relationship between two high school students, the two narrators, was barely sexual: the author needed these two girls to show how something that is on full display, a teacher's brazenly open pursuit of their classmates, is not seen at the close range. Small things that make a teen life - changing friendships, loving but busy parents, movies that offer escape from the daily routine, beer and cigarettes - serve as a smokescreen.
In "The Double" (Двоица), the smokescreen is different: Sonin seems to provide too much detail about the 16 years old detective family - why would the reader needs to know that Mishka's grandmother resents a certain in-law? Why Mishka's parents, patent nobodies in every respect, divorced many years ago, need to pop up unexpectedly just in time to derail the rest of Mishka's day? Why the author makes so much of Misha's Christian faith? Yet somehow everything falls eventually in place, making the protagonist, both a genius of sorts and a quintessential teen at the same time, a live person.
January 25, 2023
Даже не знаю, как меня угорздило вляпаться в эту книгу.
October 14, 2024
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