Elegy

9 hrs. 1 min.

Language Russian

Author Lu Tsyucha

Narrator Nina Mednikova

Description

You’ll be transported to the Republic of China in the 1930s: a cramped, suffocating world where corruption, fear, and the sense of constant surveillance reign. The information here belongs to the powerful, and for trying to uncover the truth, you may pay with your life.

A vivid authorial style with irony and subtle, almost English humor.

China, 1934. The disappearance of a schoolgirl becomes the key to the city’s dark secrets.

When Cen Shusuan vanishes, her friend Ge Lingyi— a girl from an influential family—decides to disobey the adults and turns to private detective Liu Yixian.

Cold-blooded and calculating, Liu Yixian quickly realizes: this is not a simple runaway. The investigation meets fierce resistance from the very top. Conspiracies of a wealthy clan, shadowy deals at the port, and criminal feuds come together into a single picture. But in this game, the cost of the truth is too high—those who get too close to it here are preferred to be silenced forever.