The Good Angel of Death - Softcover

Kurkov, Andrey

 
9780099513490: The Good Angel of Death
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0099513498 ISBN 13: 9780099513490
Verlag: Vintage, 2010

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'Packs a lot of plot into this deadpan satire... Strange and tantalising' Metro

Discover this powerful dark satire from one of Ukraine's most acclaimed authors.

When Kolya moves into a new flat in Kyiv, he discovers an annotated manuscript hidden inside a copy of War and Peace and decides to track down its author, even if it means digging up the grave of a Ukranian nationalist who died in mysterious circumstances.

An exhumation reveals that an item of great national importance is buried near a fort in Kazakstan so when, during his night shift as a security guard, Kolya is threatened with mysterious phone calls, he sets off on what turns out to be a very bizarre journey. Along the way he meets a host of unlikely characters including Bedouins, ex-KGB officers and a spirit-like companion in the form of a chameleon.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Andrey Kurkov was born in St Petersburg in 1961. Having graduated from the Kiev Foreign Languages Institute, he worked for some time as a journalist, did his military service as a prison warder in Odessa, then became a film cameraman, writer of screenplays and author of critically acclaimed and popular novels, including the cult bestseller Death and the Penguin.

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Verlag
Vintage
Erscheinungsdatum
2010
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0099513498
ISBN 13 
9780099513490
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
384
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