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Jimi Hendrix Live in Lviv by Andrey Kurkov
Category: Fiction
"Ukraine's greatest living novelist" New European"A Ukrainian Murakami" GuardianA hugely entertaining romp through the beautiful city of Lviv, by the author of Death and the Penguin and Grey Bees, now reporting widely on the Russian invasion of Ukraine, his home country.Strange things are afoot in the c ...Show more
Jimi Hendrix Live in Lviv by Andrey Kurkov (translated by Reuben Woolley)
Category: Fiction
"Ukraine's greatest living novelist" New European"A Ukrainian Murakami" GuardianA hugely entertaining romp through the beautiful city of Lviv, by the author of Death and the Penguin and Grey BeesStrange things are afoot in the cosmopolitan city of Lviv, western Ukraine. Seagulls are circling and the air ...Show more
Penguin Lost by Andrey Kurkov
Category: Fiction
Viktor - last seen in Death and the Penguin fleeing Mafia vengeance on an Antarctica-bound flight booked for Penguin Misha - seizes a heaven-sent opportunity to return to Kiev with a new identity. Clear now as to the enormity of abandoning Misha, then convalescent from a heart-transplant, Viktor determi ...Show more
Penguin Lost by Andrey Kurkov
Category: Fiction
Sequel to the highly acclaimed Death And The Penguin this is a must for everyone dying to find out what happened next to Viktor and Misha. Death And The Penguin ends with Viktor, in fear of his life, taking the seat on the Expedition to Antarctica plane booked for Penguin Misha, now abandoned in a c ...Show more
The Bickford Fuse by Andrey Kurkov
Category: Fiction
The Great Patriotic War is drawing to a close, but a new darkness is falling over Soviet Russia. And for a disparate, disconnected clutch of wanderers - many thousands of miles apart, linked only by destiny and by paths that are destined to cross - four parallel journeys are just beginning. Goritch and ...Show more
The Bickford Fuse by Andrey Kurkov
Category: Fiction
Catch-22 meets The Brothers Karamazov in the last great satire of the Soviet Era The Great Patriotic War is stumbling to a close, but a new darkness has fallen over Soviet Russia. And for a disparate, disconnected clutch of wanderers - many thousands of miles apart but linked by a common goal - four pa ...Show more
The Case of the General's Thumb by Andrey Kurkov
Category: Fiction
A Russian General is murdered. But why? And, more importantly, what has happened to his thumb? Viktor Slutsky, a young police lieutenant, is sent to investigate it. So, independently, is Nik Tsensky, a former military interpreter. We read in parallel their two stories as they travel across Europe, pawns ...Show more
The Case of the General's Thumb by Andrey Kurkov
Category: Fiction
An international thriller, shot through with black satire and authentic detail, by the author of the highly acclaimed Death & The Penguin. When the corpse of a distinguished general and presidential adviser is found, attached to an advertising balloon, lieutenant Viktor Slutsky is sent in to in ...Show more
The Death of a Soldier Told by His Sister - A Ukrainian Story by Olesya Khromeychuk; Philippe Sands (Foreword by); Andrey Kurkov (Foreword by)
Category: Popular History
WITH A FOREWORD BY PHILIPPE SANDS AND AN INTRODUCTION BY ANDREY KURKOV'If you read only one book about the war, this is the one to read.' -Henry Marsh, author of Do No Harm'Unforgettable. An immediate history of a cruel war and a personal chronicle of unbearable loss' -Simon Sebag-Montefiore, author of ...Show more
The Gardener from Ochakov by Andrey Kurkov
Category: Fiction
Igor is confident his old Soviet policeman's uniform will be the best costume at the party. But he hasn't gone far before he realises something is wrong. The streets are unusually dark and empty, and the only person to emerge from the shadows runs away from him in terror. After a perplexing conversation ...Show more
The Good Angel of Death by Andrey Kurkov
Category: Fiction
When Kolia moves into a new flat in Kiev, he finds a book hidden within a volume of War and Peace. Intrigued by the annotations that appear on every page, Kolia sets out to find out more about the scribbler. His investigations take him to a graveyard, more specifically the coffin of a Ukrainian national ...Show more
The Milkman in the Night by Andrey Kurkov
Category: Fiction
Semyon is disturbed. He has woken up in the living room with blood on his shirt, an angry wife and no idea where he was the night before. After waking to find his boots and overcoat damp on several mornings in a row, Semyon realises his excursions are a nightly occurrence. Concerned for his own safety a ...Show more