Author: Meek, James
Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Published on 20 June 2019 by Canongate Books (Canongate Canons) in the United Kingdom as part of 'the Canons' series.
Paperback | 416 pages, No
129 x 197 x 27 | 296g
1919, Siberia.
Deep in the unforgiving landscape a town lies under military rule, awaiting the remorseless assault of Bolsheviks along the Trans-Siberian railway. One night a stranger, Samarin, appears from the woods with a tale of escape from an Arctic prison, insisting a cannibal is on his trail. Only Anna, a beautiful young widow, trusts his story. When a local shaman is found dead, suspicion and terror engulf the isolated community, which harbours a secret of its own . . .