The Bickford Fuse
$34.73
- Paperback
352 pages
- Release Date
13 June 2017
Summary
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 parallel journeys are just beginning.
Gorych and his driver, rolling through water, sand and snow on an empty petrol tank; the occupant of a black airship, lookin…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781848666061 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1848666063 |
| Author: | Andrey Kurkov, Boris Dralyuk |
| Publisher: | Quercus Publishing |
| Imprint: | MacLehose Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 352 |
| Release Date: | 13 June 2017 |
| Weight: | 245g |
| Dimensions: | 203mm x 157mm x 24mm |
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Kurkov’s style is spare and effective, drawing us with deceptive ease into a dense, complex world full of wonderful characters.
Kurkov’s style is spare and effective, drawing us with deceptive ease into a dense, complex world full of wonderful characters. - Michael Palin
Kurkov is the real thing … Comparisons with Bulgakov’s zany Moscow are not far-fetched. - Guardian.His bestselling novels are known for their surreal touches, but Andrey Kurkov, the Ukrainian novelist hailed as a post-Soviet Kafka, also has an uncanny ability to predict events in the real world around him. - Daily Telegraph.Beguiling … frequently funny … completely its own thing. it may even be a little bit of a masterpiece - Financial TimesA kind of Ukrainian Kurt Vonnegut … If you want to read about the Soviet Union but can’t face reading, say, Robert Service, and you have a penchant for the strange and surreal, you could do worse than reading Kurkov. - Spectator.About The Author
Andrey Kurkov
Born near Leningrad in 1961, Kurkov was a journalist, prison warder, cameraman and screenplay-writer before his novels took off. He received “hundreds of rejections” and was a pioneer of self-publishing, selling more than 75,000 copies of his books in a single year. His novel Death and the Penguin, his first in English translation, was an international bestseller, drawing acclaim from all quarters. He lives in Kiev with his English wife and their three children.
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