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 deadly existentialist” in detective fiction (Boston Globe), an author whose Hitchcock-filmed novel “Strangers on a Train” was adapted, and whose Tom Ripley series has been repeatedly brought to the big screen. Victor Van Allen is thirty-six. He lives in the town of Little Wesley in Massachusetts, and his wife Melinda is cheating on him.

For a while, Victor puts up with her affairs, but one day he decides to fight—and, for the sake of romantic mystery, he invents a story about a murder. From a pretend murder to the real thing, there’s just one step in Highsmith’s work… The novel also has a French film adaptation (1981)—directed by Michel Deville, starring Jean-Louis Trintignant and Isabelle Huppert. And in 2022, a new film 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 him or not, but ‘Deep Water’ is a must-read” (Sunday Times).