The truth about the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, by 'Ukraine's greatest living novelist' (Charlie Connelly, New European Books of the Year).
Born near Leningrad in 1961, Andrey Kurkov was a journalist, prison warder, cameraman and screenplay-writer before he became well known as a novelist. He was a pioneer of self-publishing, selling more than 75,000 copies of his books in a single year. His novel Death and the Penguin, his first in English translation, became an international bestseller, translated into more than thirty languages. He is also known as a commentator and journalist on Ukraine for the international media. His work of reportage, Ukraine Diaries: Dispatches from Kiev, was published in 2014.
"Ukraine's greatest living novelist" Charlie Connelly, New
EuropeanBooks of the Year
Praise for Grey Bees
"A latter-day Bulgakov . . . A Ukrainian Murakami" Phoebe
Taplin,Guardian
"A post-Soviet Kafka" Colin Freeman, Daily Telegraph
"Strange and mesmerising . . . In spare prose, Ukraine's most
famousnovelist unsparingly examines the inhuman confusions of our
moderntimes" John Thornhill, Financial Times
Praise for Death and The Penguin
"A tragicomic masterpiece" Daily Telegraph
"A black comedy of rare distinction" Spectator
"A striking portrait of post-Soviet isolation . . . In this bleak
morallandscape Kurkov manages to find ample refuge for his dark
humour"New York Times
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