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The Good Angel of Death
Andrey Kurkov
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Description for The Good Angel of Death
Paperback. When Kolya moves into a new flat in Kiev, he discovers an annotated manuscript hidden inside a copy of War and Peace and decides to track down its author, even if it means digging up the grave of a Ukranian nationalist who died in mysterious circumstances. Translator(s): Bromfield, Andrew. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 24. Weight in Grams: 258.
'Packs a lot of plot into this deadpan satire... Strange and tantalising' Metro
Discover this powerful dark satire from one of Ukraine's most acclaimed authors.
When Kolya moves into a new flat in Kyiv, he discovers an annotated manuscript hidden inside a copy of War and Peace and decides to track down its author, even if it means digging up the grave of a Ukranian nationalist who died in mysterious circumstances.
An exhumation reveals that an item of great national importance is buried near a fort in Kazakstan so when, during his night shift as a ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Number of pages
384
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099513490
SKU
V9780099513490
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99-7
About 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.
Reviews for The Good Angel of Death
Packs a lot of plot into this deadpan satire... Strange and tantalising
Metro
Flits between dark and light exploring the twilight zone between fantasy and reality
John Thornhill
Financial Times
Kurkov is hugely talented, truly very funny
Time Out
Kurkov's style is spare and effective, drawing us with deceptive ease into a dense, ... Read more
Metro
Flits between dark and light exploring the twilight zone between fantasy and reality
John Thornhill
Financial Times
Kurkov is hugely talented, truly very funny
Time Out
Kurkov's style is spare and effective, drawing us with deceptive ease into a dense, ... Read more