An international thriller, shot through with black satire and authentic detail, by the author of the highly acclaimed Death & the Penguin.
Andrey Kurkov was born in St Petersburg in 1961. Having graduated from the Kiev Foreign Languages Institute, he worked for some time as a journalist, did his military service as a prison warder in Odessa, then became a film cameraman, writer of screenplays and author of critically acclaimed and popular novels, including the cult bestseller Death and the Penguin.
An ebullient black comedy... Reminiscent of the best Soviet
dissident literature
*Daily Telegraph*
Full of touches of grim insight and tactful surrealism, with just
enough of the absurd to suggest a cross between John le Carre's
Smiley and Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita
*Scotland on Sunday*
Kurkov is a fine satirist and a real, blackly comic find
*Observer*
Kurkov flips from mock-tragedy to comedy and back again, planting
the ominous and the absurd neatly among deadpan descriptions of a
daily life in denial
*The Times*
Kurkov received universal praise for his debut novel Death and the
Penguin... Kurkov's latest is better
*Time Out*
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