Gorsky Vesna Goldsworthy by Vesna Goldsworthy 9781473521124, 1473521122, B00RKX0SX4 instant download after payment.

Charmingly written and inspired by The Great Gatsby, Gorsky is a vicarious thrill - an ode to cosmopolitan taste and a brilliant reimagining of a powerful classic. “An impressively accomplished retelling of the Gatsby story,” in which a Russian businessman engages an impoverished bookseller’s help pursuing a lover. (Los Angeles Review of Books)

"It’s a very clever idea: to update 'The Great Gatsby' by making the bootlegger into a Russian arms-dealing billionaire and transplanting the action from Jazz Age New York to 21st-century London, a city increasingly shaped by global wealth.”  -  The New York Times Book Review

On a rainy afternoon in London’s old Chelsea, a charming multi-billionaire Russian oligarch, Gorsky, walks into an ailing bookshop and writes the first of several quarter-of-a-million pound checks. With that money, Gorsky has tasked Nikola, the store’s bored and brilliant clerk, with sourcing books for a massive personal library, which will be housed in the magnificent, palatial home Gorsky happens to be the building immediately next to Nikola’s own modest dwelling. Gorsky needs a tasteful collection of Russian literature to woo a long-lost love—no matter that she happens to be married to an Englishman.

“It’s an accomplished retelling of an American classic. Indeed, it’s amazing that Vesna Goldsworthy’s excellent new novel Gorsky is the first full-scale re-working of [The Great Gatsby]... More importantly, and more interestingly, this clever re-telling underlines how delicately balanced a thing is Gatsby and sheds light on how the novel works.”  -   Tablet

His passion for her surpasses even his immeasurable wealth, and Nikola will be drawn into a world of opulence, greed, capitalism, sex, and beauty as he helps Gorsky pursue this doomed love.