Deep Water

9 hrs. 56 min.

Language Russian

Author Patricia Highsmith

Narrator Sergey Gorbunov

Description

For the first time in Russian—a classic novel by the “most murderous existentialist in detective prose” (Boston Globe), author of Hitchcock’s film “Strangers on a Train” and the series of books about Tom Ripley, repeatedly adapted for film. Victor Van Allen is thirty-six. He lives in the town of Little Wellesley, Massachusetts, and his wife, Melinda, is having an affair with another man.

For a time, Vic tolerates her infidelities, but one day he decides to fight back—and, for the sake of romantic mystery, invents a story about a murder. And from a pretend murder to an actual one, there’s only one step in Highsmith…

The novel has a French film adaptation (1981)—directed by Michel Deville, starring Jean-Louis Trintignant and Isabelle Huppert—and in 2022 a new adaptation was released worldwide: directed by Adrian Lyne (“9½ Weeks,” “Fatal Attraction,” “Jacob’s Ladder,” “Indecent Proposal,” “Lolita,” “Unfaithful”), starring Ben Affleck and Ana de Armas. “Love it or hate it, but ‘Deep Water’ is essential reading” (Sunday Times).