Andrey Kurkov

The Case of the General's Thumb (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

'Kurkov is a fine satirist and a real, blackly comic, find' Observer

Discover the international thriller, shot through with black satire and authentic detail, by one of Ukraine's most highly acclaimed authors.

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 Kyiv for a secret mission.

A larger-than-life hitman, bombs under furniture, a hearse, a deaf-and-dumb blonde, a tortoise and a parrot all play a part as Kurkov evokes a world of secret militia not seen before in Western fiction.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Random House
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Mai 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781446483381
• Artikelnr.: 47395869

Autorenporträt

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.

Rezensionen

"An ebullient black comedy... Reminiscent of the best Soviet dissident literature" John Burnside Daily Telegraph