What we said: “A dangerous adventure of self-betterment from the teeming city streets, influenced by Adiga’s own avowed love of Dickens and Balzac, and it’s a really enjoyable story. ” Russian veteran Andrei Konchalovsky returns to the spotlight with this scathing account of a Soviet-era scandal: a massacre of striking workers in 1961, which was promptly hushed up by the authorities.