{"id":12320,"date":"2015-11-10T11:29:40","date_gmt":"2015-11-10T10:29:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/test.theeatculture.com\/en\/?p=12320"},"modified":"2015-11-10T11:28:57","modified_gmt":"2015-11-10T10:28:57","slug":"the-book-on-the-nightstand-child-44","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/test.theeatculture.com\/en\/the-book-on-the-nightstand-child-44\/","title":{"rendered":"THE BOOK ON THE NIGHTSTAND: CHILD 44"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There is no doubt that the best way to measure <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">reading happiness &#8221; is empathy, the ability that allows you to enter into the emotions of others and be wrapped in them. And if you, dear reader, decide to trust me this time, you are gonna be Leo Stepanovich Demidov, a respectable MGB official from the Soviet Union in 1953.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Child 44<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is the tale of the hunt for a serial murderer. Tom Rob Smith brings to light, mixing reality and fantasy, the story of Andrei Chikatilo <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2013 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">butcher of Rostov &#8211; one of the most brutal serial killer in history. From the first pages you will see however that the strength of this novel is not the police investigation, but the ability of getting involved.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In Stalin&#8217;s Russia the crime does not exist. Apparently it shouldn&#8217;t be so difficult for the secret police to face the death of several children and to bring to justice the murderer. This is the certainty of Leo, at least initially. What definitely fascinates, in addition to the cultural and historical background, is the awakening of the main character: he will go from agent inquisitive to public enemy and the fuse will be the love of his wife Raisa, struck by the system, whose strength will soon be in doubt. &#8220;When you lose power, the problem is that people begin to tell you the truth.&#8221;. Read it if you want to find out what is the real truth.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Time of reading:<\/strong>\u00a0 <em>in one breath<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/test.theeatculture.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Bambino-44_1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12312\" src=\"http:\/\/test.theeatculture.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Bambino-44_1.jpg\" alt=\"Bambino 44_1\" width=\"850\" height=\"559\" srcset=\"http:\/\/test.theeatculture.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Bambino-44_1.jpg 850w, http:\/\/test.theeatculture.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Bambino-44_1-300x197.jpg 300w, http:\/\/test.theeatculture.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Bambino-44_1-330x217.jpg 330w, http:\/\/test.theeatculture.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Bambino-44_1-690x453.jpg 690w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/test.theeatculture.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Bambino-44.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12314\" src=\"http:\/\/test.theeatculture.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Bambino-44.jpg\" alt=\"Bambino 44\" width=\"850\" height=\"567\" srcset=\"http:\/\/test.theeatculture.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Bambino-44.jpg 850w, http:\/\/test.theeatculture.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Bambino-44-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/test.theeatculture.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Bambino-44-330x220.jpg 330w, http:\/\/test.theeatculture.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Bambino-44-296x197.jpg 296w, http:\/\/test.theeatculture.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Bambino-44-690x460.jpg 690w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>Photography: Sara Cartelli.<br \/>\n<\/em><em>\u00a9 The Eat Culture.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is no doubt that the best way to measure \u201creading happiness &#8221; is empathy, the ability that allows you to enter into the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":890,"featured_media":12317,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[911],"tags":[1034],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/test.theeatculture.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12320"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/test.theeatculture.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/test.theeatculture.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/test.theeatculture.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/890"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/test.theeatculture.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12320"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/test.theeatculture.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12322,"href":"http:\/\/test.theeatculture.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12320\/revisions\/12322"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/test.theeatculture.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/test.theeatculture.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/test.theeatculture.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/test.theeatculture.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}