Sister Pelagia and the Black Monk (54 page)

BORIS AKUNIN is the pen name of Grigory Chkhartishvili, who was born in the Republic of Georgia in 1956. A philologist, critic, essayist, and translator of Japanese, Akunin published his first detective stories in 1998 and has already become one of the most widely read authors in Russia. In addition to the first two books in the Sister Pelagia series,
Sister Pelagia and the White Bulldog
and
Sister Pelagia and the Black Monk
, he is also the author of eleven Erast Fandorin novels, including
The Winter Queen, The Turkish Gambit, Murder on the Leviathan, The Death of Achilles
, and
Special Assignments
, available from Random House Trade Paperbacks. He lives in Moscow.

ABOUT THE TRANSLATOR

ANDREW BROMFIELD was born in Hull in Yorkshire, England, and is the acclaimed translator of the stories and novels of Victor Pelevin and all of Boris Akunin's fiction.

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the products of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

Translation copyright © 2008 by Random House, Inc. Dossier copyright © 2008 by Random House, Inc.

All rights reserved.

Random House, Inc., New York.

This work was originally published in Russian as
Pelagiya i chorny
monakh
by Zakharov Publishers, Moscow, in 2001, copyright © 2001 by Boris Akunin. This English translation was originally published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, in 2007.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Akunin, B. (Boris)

[Pelagiia i chernyi monakh. English]

Sister pelagia and the black monk: a novel / Boris Akunin;

translated by Andrew Bromfield.

p. cm.

eISBN: 978-0-307-49101-5

I. Bromfield, Andrew. II. Title.

PG3478.K78P45513 2008

891.73′5—dc22 2007045132

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