The Deceit of Riches

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As husband and wife living and working in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia during the same tumultuous time period as the author, we so identify with this gripping novel. Though Peter Turner might be fictional, the chaos, the explosion of crime and the mafia, and the struggle for basic necessities were not. This was a dangerous, yet exciting, time to be in Russia but also deeply sad to see how the Russia people suffered due to all the changes enveloping their country—criminal and otherwise.

Val Karren brings to life this crazy, unsettling time during the fall of the Soviet Union by telling us the compelling story of Peter Turner, an American university student in Nizhny Novgorod, who inadvertently gets caught up in the local power struggles. He experiences first hand many of the day-to-day struggles facing the common man and woman; describing some of the repercussions of what Russia’s new-found freedoms brought to the Russian people and their culture. Through the eyes of Peter Turner, the author is also able to give us a glimpse of the difficulty of moral choices when circumstances become dire, and nearly everyone seems corrupted, either through need or greed.

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