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The Bickford Fuse

Andrey Kurkov

The Bickford Fuse
The Bickford Fuse

The Bickford Fuse

Andrey Kurkov

Paperback | Engels
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A satirical epic of the Soviet soul by the bestselling author of Death and the Penguin

Kurkov's style is spare and effective, drawing us with deceptive ease into a dense, complex world full of wonderful characters.

Kurkov is the real thing . . . Comparisons with Bulgakov's zany Moscow are not far-fetched.

Some people see him as a latter-day Bulgakov; to others he's a Ukrainian Murakami.

His bestselling novels are known for their surreal touches, but Andrey Kurkov, the Ukrainian novelist hailed as a post-Soviet Kafka, also has an uncanny ability to predict events in the real world around him.

Beguiling ... frequently funny ... completely its own thing. it may even be a little bit of a masterpiece

A kind of Ukrainian Kurt Vonnegut . . . If you want to read about the Soviet Union but can't face reading, say, Robert Service, and you have a penchant for the strange and surreal, you could do worse than reading Kurkov.

A sharp and funny examination of the Russian soul

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 received "hundreds of rejections" and 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 became an international bestseller, translated into more than thirty languages. As well as writing fiction for adults and children, he has become known as a commentator and journalist on Ukraine for the international media. His work of reportage, Ukraine Diaries: Dispatches from Kiev was followed by the novels The Bickford Fuse, Grey Bees, and Jimi Hendrix Live in Lviv (longlisted for the International Booker Prize 2023), as well as his non-fiction work Diary of an Invasion (2022). BORIS DRALYUK is an award-winning translator and the Executive Editor of the Los Angeles Review of Books. He taught Russian literature for a number of years at UCLA and at the University of St Andrews. He is a co-editor (with Robert Chandler and Irina Mashinski) of the Penguin Book of Russian Poetry, and has translated Isaac Babel's Red Cavalry and Odessa Stories, as well as Kurkov's The Bickford Fuse. In 2020 he received the inaugural Kukula Award for Excellence in Non-fiction Book Reviewing from the Washington Monthly.

Specificaties

  • Uitgever
    MacLehose Press
  • Vertaler
    Boris Dralyuk
  • Verschenen
    jun. 2017
  • Bladzijden
    352
  • Genre
    Moderne & contemporaine literatuur
  • Afmetingen
    203 x 157 x 24 mm
  • Gewicht
    245 gram
  • EAN
    9781848666061
  • Paperback
    Paperback
  • Taal
    Engels

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