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Kangaroo
Yuz Aleshkovsky
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Description for Kangaroo
Paperback. Translator(s): Glenny, Tamara. Num Pages: 290 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 142 x 19. Weight in Grams: 454.
One morning in 1949, Fan Fanych, alias Etcetera, is summoned from his Moscow apartment to KGB headquarters, where he is informed that he will be charged with a crime more heinous than any mere man could ever devise: “the vicious rape and murder of an aged kangaroo in the Moscow Zoo on a night between July 14, 1789 and January 9, 1905.” Every moment in the nightmarish and hilarious account that follows lives up to the absurdity of this accusation. Along the way, Fanych runs into seductive KGB agent (who’s bent on convincing Fanych that he’s a kangaroo), a ... Read more
One morning in 1949, Fan Fanych, alias Etcetera, is summoned from his Moscow apartment to KGB headquarters, where he is informed that he will be charged with a crime more heinous than any mere man could ever devise: “the vicious rape and murder of an aged kangaroo in the Moscow Zoo on a night between July 14, 1789 and January 9, 1905.” Every moment in the nightmarish and hilarious account that follows lives up to the absurdity of this accusation. Along the way, Fanych runs into seductive KGB agent (who’s bent on convincing Fanych that he’s a kangaroo), a ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Dalkey Archive Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
278
Place of Publication
Normal, IL, United States
ISBN
9781564782168
SKU
9781564782168
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About Yuz Aleshkovsky
The author was born in Siberia in 1929; he spent several years in a labor camp before he was able to emigrate to the West in 1979. Aleshkovsky writes in the tradition of Fyodor Dostoevski and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.
Reviews for Kangaroo
" ... this is a sustained cry of rage and despair delivered at the top of the lungs
unremittingly foulmouthed, deadly, on-target, seditious and mirthlessly funny."
PW
unremittingly foulmouthed, deadly, on-target, seditious and mirthlessly funny."
PW