Andrei Kurkov

Viktor es un escritor arruinado: está sin blanca, lo ha dejado su novia, tiene frío. Imaginen si se siente solo que decide adoptar a un pingüino. No sabe que este nuevo compañero de piso, Misha, tam

«El regreso de uno de los 50 escritores más importantes del mundo»Lire Es el invierno de 1920 y el estado ucraniano se encuentra bajo el control bolchevique. Al joven investigador Samson Kolechko le

Viktor Zolotariov idazle-nahia Kieven bizi da Misharekin, depresioak jotako enperadore-pinguino batekin. Nekeza zaio bizimodua ateratzea; bere irudimena besterik ez du, eta ipuin eta eleberri argitaragabeez betetako tiradera bat. Baina bere bizitza errotik aldatuko da egunkari bateko erredakzioburuak proposatzen dionean oraindik bizi diren pertsona ospetsuen heriotza-oharrak -gurutzetxoak- idatz ditzan, haiek hil baino lehen prest izateko. Viktorrek onartuko du, baina hilberriak argitaratzen hasten direnean izularriturik konturatuko da kontu ilun batean murgilduta dagoela. Bizitza misterioz bete eta arriskutsu bihurtuko da, eta pertsonaia xelebreak sartuko dira Viktorren bizimodu betiberdinean. Kurkovek gizarte post-sobietarreko alienazioaren erretratu umoretsua eskaintzen digu, gizarte mafiosoaren erretratu kritikoa. Pertsonaiak galdu-gordean dabiltza. Bizirauten ikasi duten pertsonaiak dira, amarruak eraikitzen eta saihesten ikasi dutenak, amarru hilgarriak inoiz. Kurkovek ezin hobeki nahasten ditu errealitatea eta absurdoa. Honela dio berak: "Idazten dudanean, gozatu egiten dut errealitatea desitxuratzen".

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.

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.

MUERTE CON PINGüINO es un libro del autor ANDREI KURKOV editado por BLACKIE BOOKS. MUERTE CON PINGüINO tiene un código de ISBN 978-84-17059-46-0, de la colección BLACKIE BOOCKS (BB).

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.

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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.

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.

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

A Summer 2024 pick in the Times Literary Supplement and the Financial Times Andrey Kurkov is often called Ukraine s greatest living writer and it is a gift for crime fiction fans that he writes in this genre New York Times A very intriguing and atmospheric novel by a highly accomplished writer A fascinating read in the light of contemporary events Alexander McCall Smith Bestselling Author of The No 1 Ladies Detective Agency Kyiv 1919 The Soviets control the city but White armies menace them from the West No man trusts his neighbour and any spark of resistance may ignite into open rebellion When Samson Kolechko s father is murdered his last act is to save his son from a falling Cossack sabre Deprived of his right ear instead of his head Samson is left an orphan with only his father s collection of abacuses for company Until that is his flat is requisitioned by two Red Army soldiers whose secret plans Samson is somehow able to overhear with uncanny clarity Eager to thwart them he stumbles into a world of murder and intrigue that will either be the making of him or finish what the Cossack started Inflected with Kurkov s signature humour and magical realism The Silver Bone takes inspiration from the real life archives of crime enforc

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.