Andrei Kurkov

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UN SHERLOCK HOLMES EN KIEV Nominado al Premio Strega Europeo, por el galardonado Andréi Kurkov, traducido a cuarenta y dos idiomas y autor de Muerte con pingüino y Abejas grises (Premio Médicis 2022

«Kurkov construye una historia de acción que le ha valido comparaciones con Le Carré. Una fábula moral en la grotesca época postsoviética teñida de absurdo dostoievskiano.» THE INDEPENDENT «Una sáti

Igor is confident his old Soviet policeman''s uniform will be the best costume at the party. But he hasn''t gone far before he realises something is wrong. The streets are unusually dark and empty, and the only person to emerge from the shadows runs away from him in terror.After a perplexing conversation with the terrified man, who turns out to be a wine smuggler, and on recovering from the resulting hangover, Igor comes to an unbelievable conclusion: he has found his way back to 1957 Kiev. And it isn''t the innocent era his mother and her friends have so sentimentally described.As he travels between centuries, his life becomes more and more complicated. The unusual gardener who lives in his mother''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. With his mother''s disapproval at his absences growing, and his adventures in each time frame starting to catch up with him, Igor has to survive the past if he wants any kind of future.

Catch-22 meets The Brothers Karamazov in the last great satire of the Soviet EraThe Great Patriotic War is stumbling to a close, but a new darkness has fallen over Soviet Russia. And for a disparate, disconnected clutch of wanderers - many thousands of miles apart but linked by a common goal - four parallel journeys are just beginning.Gorych and his driver, rolling through water, sand and snow on an empty petrol tank; the occupant of a black airship, looking down benevolently as he floats above his Fatherland; young Andrey, who leaves his religious community in search of a new life; and Kharitonov, who trudges from the Sea of Japan to Leningrad, carrying a fuse that, when lit, could blow all and sundry to smithereens.Written in the final years of Communism, The Bickford Fuse is a satirical epic of the Soviet soul, exploring the origins and dead-ends of the Russian mentality from the end of World War Two to the Unions collapse. Blending allegory and fable with real events, and as deliriously absurd as anything Kurkov has written, it is both an elegy for lost years and a song of hope for a future not yet set in stone.Translated from the Russian by Boris Dralyuk

ussia. And for a disparate, disconnected clutch of wanderers - many thousands of miles apart but linked by a common goal - four parallel journeys are just beginning.Gorych and his driver, rolling through water, sand and snow on an empty petrol tank; the occupant of a black airship, looking down benevolently as he floats above his Fatherland; young Andrey, who leaves his religious community in search of a new life; and Kharitonov, who trudges from the Sea of Japan to Leningrad, carrying a fuse that, when lit, could blow all and sundry to smithereens.Written in the final years of Communism, The Bickford Fuse is a satirical epic of the Soviet soul, exploring the origins and dead-ends of the Russian mentality from the end of World War Two to the Union''s collapse. Blending allegory and fable with real events, and as deliriously absurd as anything Kurkov has written, it is both an elegy for lost years and a song of hope for a future not yet set in stone.

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.

This journal of the invasion, a collection of Andrey Kurkov's writings and broadcasts from Kyiv, is a remarkable record of a brilliant writer at the forefront of a 21st-century war.Andrey Kurkov has been a consistent satirical commentator on his adopted country of Ukraine. His most recent work, Grey Bees, is a dark foreshadowing of the devastation in the eastern part of Ukraine in which only two villagers remain in a village bombed to smithereens. The author has lived in Kyiv and in the remote countryside of Ukraine throughout the Russian invasion. He has also been able to fly to European capitals where he has been working to raise money for charities and to address crowded halls. Kurkov has been asked to write for every English newspaper, as also to be interviewed all over Europe. He has become an important voice for his people.Kurkov sees every video and every posted message, and he spends the sleepless nights of continuous bombardment of his city delivering the truth about this invasion to the world.

After his friend Volodka follows him one night, they discover hes meeting a tall, blonde woman and accompanying her to her apartment. In the daytime he doesnt know this woman or where her apartment is and, odder yet, someone is watching Volodka watching Semyon.

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Víctor, un escritor frustrado, se gana la vida en Kiev escribiendo una serie de curiosas notas necrológicas por encargo. Curiosas ya que las semblanzas biográficas correponden a personas que aún no han fallecido. No obstante, Victor no hace preguntas y mitiga su soledad conviviendo con un pinguino en su pequeño apartamento. Sin embargo, aun las cosas mas extrañas siempre tienen una razon, y Victor la intuira cuando los biografiados empiezan a morir a medida que el entrega sus semblanzas... Un descarnado y fiel retrato de la Rusia actual, sumida en el caos economico y a merced de las poderosas mafias, trazado con un corrosivo humor negro.

Un escritor frustrado vive en el Kiev actual con su pingüino depresivo y se gana la vida escribiendo extrañas notas necrológicas. Extrañas porque su jefe se las encarga antes de que los reseñados mueran... Una tragicómica visión de la mafiosa sociedad prosoviética.

Viktor is an aspiring writer with only Misha, his pet penguin, for company. Although he would prefer to write short stories, he earns a living composing obituaries for a newspaper. But when he opens the newspaper to see his work in print for the first time, his pride swiftly turns to terror.

Tras contratar a un asesino a sueldo para que se encargue de su propia muerte, Tolia se reencuentra con un amigo de la infancia, consigue un poco de dinero fácil, conoce a una chica..., halla algunas razones, en fin, para seguir viviendo. Pero la tarea de deshacer el plan resulta mucho mas complicada que la de urdirlo, y lo llevara, poco a poco, a transformar su vida de una manera inesperada... Con un humor pesimista y desapasionado, Andrei Kurkov mezcla el genero negro con la comedia de enredo en esta novela, para desvelarnos asi su particular concepcion de la existencia, desde un tiempo y un lugar en que seguir viviendo se ha convertido en una tarea cotidiana, poco urgente y algo tediosa. Por la Kiev de hoy, ciudad en plena resaca postsovietica, deambulan los personajes de Querido amigo, compañero del difunto, que, sin conseguir despreciar completamente las viejas voces de sus conciencias, han aprendido a sobrevivir construyendo y esquivando trampas. Pequeñas trampas que, lamentablemente, a veces pueden llegar a ser mortales.

Andrey Kurkovs urgent, humane and unforgettable war diaries continue in a poignant, personal account of life under siege in Ukraine rich with humanity, dark humour, and unforgettable glimpses of resilience amidst devastation.`A vivid, moving and sometimes funny account of the reality of life during Russias invasion Marc Bennetts, The Times`Uplifting and utterly defiant Matt Nixson, Daily Express`No one with the slightest interest in this war, or the nation on which it is being waged, should fail to read Andrey Kurkov Dominic Lawson, Daily Mail____Andrey Kurkovs war diaries continue: A profound and deeply personal chronicle of life under siege.In this second volume of his acclaimed war diaries, Ukraines greatest living writer bears witness to a nation enduring the unendurable. From his home in Kyiv, Kurkov captures the surreal and the life-shattering: children learning algebra in metro stations turned bomb shelters, holidaymakers sunbathing on mined beaches, and farmers sowing fields shadowed by missile strikes.On its eastern borders, Ukrainian citizens are put into "filtration camps", en route to Russia or to execution. To the north, Belarusian forces press refugees into service as mine detectors.This is a lived account rich with startling vignettes, dark humour and devastating detail of a country adapting, resisting, surviving. A child downloads movies to a smartphone to watch during nightly power cuts. An elderly Japanese man feeds the hungry in Kharkiv. A soldier carefully rehomes a swarm of bees. A winemaker uses scrap wooden shell crates to package gift sets. A Ukrainian gunner inscribes messages on shells and rockets aimed for Russia: "For Bakhmut", he writes. The family of a journalist killed in the Donbas sells their home to open a bookshop in his memory.Our Daily War is Kurkov at his most intimate and insightful: a record of resilience, heartbreak and fierce national pride. Urgent, humane, unforgettable, this is history as it happens, and as only Kurkov can write it._____PRAISE FOR ANDREY KURKOVs WAR DIARIES`Clever, passionate Roger Boyes, The Times`Thoughtfulness nearly always prevails over anger; the pieces are flawlessly structured; the tone is devoid of self-pity Robin Ashenden, Spectator`Andrey Kurkov [is] one of the most articulate ambassadors to the West for the situation in his homeland Sam Leith, Spectator`Immediate and important. . . An insiders account of how an ordinary life became extraordinary. It is also about survival, hope and humanity Helen Davies, Sunday Times`Packed with surprising details about the human effects of the Russian assault genial but also impassioned Blake Morrison, Guardian`A thoughtful and humane memoir by one of Ukraines most prominent living authors Simon Caterson, Sydney Morning Herald`Here are the kind of stories you dont see on the television news Rachel Cooke, Observer`Kurkov, an internationally-lauded novelist, is strongest when he writes on cultural matters. And this, he demonstrates convincingly, is a cultural war Ed OLoughlin, Irish Times`This book makes for essential reading Claire Allfree, Metro

Él es un periodista sin trabajo y Misha, rescatado del zoo, pasa su depresión entre la bañera y el frigorífico de la casa. Hasta que el director de un gran periódico de Kiev ofrece ad Viktor escribir las notas necrologicas o estelas, como el prefiere llamarlas. Viktor aprovecha la ocasion, un trabajo tranquilo y bien pagado. Cuando ve publicadas las estelas Viktor se queda aterrorizado. El y su pinguino depresivo se ven arrastrados por los acontecimientos en el mundo despiadado y sin reglas de la antigua Union Sovietica. Un thriller apasionante a la vez que un relato de humor negro sobre las tensiones que vive Ucrania, a mitad de camino entre la nostalgia de la epoca sovietica y el alumbramiento de una nueva sociedad, marcado por las luchas entre clanes mafiosos.

Acosado por la mafia Viktor Zolotaryov, se refugia en la helada Antártida, destino que en realidad estaba previsto para su pingüino Misha, que permanece en Kiev a la espera de un inminente trasplante

Andrey Kurkov s urgent humane and unforgettable war diaries continue in a poignant personal account of life under siege in Ukraine rich with humanity dark humour and unforgettable glimpses of resilience amidst devastation NEWLY UPDATED FOR PAPERBACK A vivid moving and sometimes funny account of the reality of life during Russia s invasion Marc Bennetts The Times Uplifting and utterly defiant Matt Nixson Daily Express No one with the slightest interest in this war or the nation on which it is being waged should fail to read Andrey Kurkov Dominic Lawson Daily Mail For centuries attempts have been made to force Ukrainians to forget their native language to stop singing Ukrainian songs and to abandon their history For almost 400 years Russia has been fighting against Ukrainian identity Andrey Kurkov s war diaries continue A profound and deeply personal chronicle of life under siege newly updated In this second volume of his acclaimed war diaries Ukraine s greatest living writer bears witness to a nation enduring the unendurable From his home in Kyiv Kurkov captures the surreal and the life shattering children learning algebra in metro stations turned bomb shelters holidaymakers sunbathing on mined beaches and farmers sowin