Andrey Kurkov

The Gardener from Ochakov

Übersetzung:Love Darragh, Amanda

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Produktbeschreibung

The unusual gardener who lives in his motherâ s shed keeps disappearing, his best friend has blackmailed the wrong people, and Igor has fallen in love with a married woman in a time before he was born.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Random House UK / Vintage
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 672331
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. August 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 195mm x 128mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 230g
• ISBN-13: 9780099571872
• ISBN-10: 0099571870
• Artikelnr.: 40403457

Autorenporträt

Andrey Kurkov is a writer, journalist, and the current president of PEN Ukraine. He 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 writer of screenplays and author of critically acclaimed and popular novels, including the bestselling Death and the Penguin. Kurkov has long been a respected commentator on Ukraine for the world's media, notably in the U.K., France, Germany, and the United States.

Rezensionen

Kurkov is a master story teller, using a simple lean style for a narrative that reads like a fable or myth, rich in invention, brought to life by the deadpan depiction of local people and local events The Bay, Swansea