The Case of the General's Thumb
(Sprache: Englisch)
An international thriller, shot through with black satire and authentic detail, by the author of the highly acclaimed Death & the Penguin.
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An international thriller, shot through with black satire and authentic detail, by the author of the highly acclaimed Death & the Penguin.
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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 a parrot all play a part as Kurkov evokes a world of secret militia not seen before in Western fiction.Autoren-Porträt von Andrej Kurkow
Andrej Kurkow, geb. 1961 in St. Petersburg, lebt seit seiner Kindheit in Kiew. Er studierte Fremdsprachen (er spricht insgesamt elf Sprachen), arbeitete als Redakteur, Gefängniswärter, Kameramann und schrieb zahlreiche Drehbücher. Seit 1996 lebt er als freier Schriftsteller in Kiew und London.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Andrej Kurkow
- 2004, 192 Seiten, Maße: 13 x 19,7 cm, Taschenbuch, Englisch
- Verlag: Vintage, London
- ISBN-10: 0099455250
- ISBN-13: 9780099455257
- Erscheinungsdatum: 04.03.2004
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Englisch
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"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
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