The Case of the General's Thumb
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- Paperback
192 pages
- Release Date
3 May 2004
Summary
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 investigate. Meanwhile, KGB officer Nik Tsensky arrives in Kiev for a secret mission.
A larger-than-life hitman, bombs under furniture, a hearse, a deaf-and-dumb blonde, a tortoise and…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099455257 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0099455250 |
| Author: | Andrey Kurkov |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 192 |
| Release Date: | 3 May 2004 |
| Weight: | 138g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 131mm x 13mm |
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Critics Review
Kurkov is a fine satirist and a real, blackly comic find
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 – John Burnside * 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 *
About The Author
Andrey Kurkov
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.
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