Read an Exclusive Excerpt from Sergey Kuznetsov’s Butterfly Skin
Debi Moore
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Tomorrow, September 23rd, Titan Books is releasing the first English translation of Butterfly Skin, the cult psychological thriller by Moscow native Sergey Kuznetsov; and as promised when we first told you about the novel, today we have an exclusive excerpt to share. It may be short, but it’s quite sweet!
CLICK HERE to download a PDF of our exclusive excerpt from Butterfly Skin, which takes readers into the dark depths of contemporary Russia.
Through his riveting plot and singular characters, Kuznetsov explores the sometimes pathological fallout resulting from our instant connectivity in the emerging world of emails, Facebook, Twitter, and other forms of electronic “intimacy.”
Synopsis
Moscow is plagued with a series of gruesome murders. Ksenia, an ambitious young editor in the news department of a small but influential online journal, decides to track down the serial killer, devising an elaborate website to entrap him and thereby boost her company’s profile. She soon realizes, however, that her obsession with the psychopath reflects something more deeply disturbing: her own unconscious mixture of horror and fascination with the sexual savagery of the murders.
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