The gamecock. (Columbia, S.C.) 1908-2006, April 02, 1982, Page Page 6, Image 6
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By CHRIS H ANDAL
Book Critic
Perception. How I perceive something is not necessarily
now you win perceive 11. Also, now we as a nauon perceive
something is not how another nation perceives it.
Understanding someone else's or another nation s perception
is interesting and it is this interest that makes Gorky
Park a fascinating novel.
Gorky Park is a murder-myster/spy thriller with a difference.
The setting is the Soviet Union and the main
character is Russian police detective Arkady Renko. The
novel has a Russian point of view; America is the abnormal
place in this book while Russia is the normal.
It took Martin Cruz Smith eight years to write this novel,
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though during that time he did write other books, including
Nightwing. The time spent on Gorky Park paid off. In hardcover,
the book stayed on the New York Times Bestseller List
for nearly one year. It has just been released in paperback.
The details of the novel are what set it apart from other
novels of the genre. The book has a sense of place. Smith
depicts life in the Soviet Union with such an air of realism
that the reader is forced to believe that this is what living in
Russia is like.
The case Renko must solve is unusual for the Moscow
detective: a triple murder in Gorky Park with the fingertips
and faces of the victims cut off to hamper idetification. Smith
writes: To be blunt, the criminals Arkady arrested were
ordinarily drunks first and murderers second, and far better
drunks than murderers.
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Such is not the case this time, and Renko sets out on the
most challenging investigation of his life, expecting the KGB
to intervene at any moment for reasons of state security.
Even as the investigation widens, the KGB doesn't interfere
and this intrigues Renko.
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plot twist, the author draws the reader further into the novel.
It is not only the atmosphere and the plot of Gorky Park
that drive the novel but the characters as well: Arkady
Renko, the Moscow detective dedicated to Russia and to
justice; Major Pribluda of the KGB, in some ways no less
dedicated than Renko; and Osborne, a shadowy American
businessman who has had connections with the highest levels
of the Russian government since World War II.
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