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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

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 famous novelist unsparingly examines the inhuman confusions of our modern times' John Thornhill, Financial Times. PRAISE FOR DEATH AND THE PENGUIN: 'A tragicomic masterpiece' Daily Telegraph. 'A black comedy of rare distinction' * Spectator *

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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.

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