Kidnapped: The Story of Crimes

Ludmilla Petrushevskaya's novel "Kidnapped" is a hilarious saga of determined women triumphing over their many oppressors to save the people they love, featuring a madcap crime spree and a whirlwind of deceit and double crossing.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 268 pages
Publication date: 08 June 2023
Publisher: Deep Vellum Publishing

From the acclaimed pen of Ludmilla Petrushevskaya, the New York Times bestselling author and the preeminent absurdist of Russia, emerges an intricate tapestry of family drama, social satire, and a ribald parody of twists, coincidences, and hijinks. Kidnapped is a wild escapade that careens from one crisis to the next, traversing both real and imagined landscapes. It revolves around Sergei Sertsov, a remarkable individual who shares not just a name but a dual identity, and the women who will stop at nothing to safeguard them. The narrative unfurls in a whirlwind of deceit and duplicity, featuring babies switched at birth, documents forged, palms greased, identities assumed, deaths faked, and authorities duped. Spanning decades and continents, the story takes us from a trade office in the tropical paradise of Handia to Russia as it navigates the tumultuous era of perestroika and plummets into the aftermath of the Soviet Union. Finally, it arrives at a grand mansion in the opulent Montegasco at the dawn of the twenty-first century. With a cast of diverse characters and settings, Kidnapped is a rollicking saga of resilient women triumphing over their myriad oppressors to rescue the ones they cherish.

Weight: 358g
Dimension: 139 x 215 x 24 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781646052042