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Kurkov's style is spare and effective, drawing us with deceptive ease into a dense, complex world full of wonderful characters. -- Michael Palin. Kurkov is the real thing ... Comparisons with Bulgakov's zany Moscow are not far-fetched. -- Kapka Kassabova Guardian. Some people see him as a latter-day Bulgakov; to others he's a Ukrainian Murakami. -- Phoebe Taplin Guardian. 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. Daily Telegraph. Beguiling ... frequently funny ... completely its own thing. it may even be a little bit of a masterpiece -- Sam Leith Financial Times 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. -- Ian Samson Spectator.

Kurkov's style is spare and effective, drawing us with deceptive ease into a dense, complex world full of wonderful characters. - Michael Palin Kurkov is the real thing . . . Comparisons with Bulgakov's zany Moscow are not far-fetched. - Guardian. 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. - Daily Telegraph. Beguiling ... frequently funny ... completely its own thing. it may even be a little bit of a masterpiece - Financial Times 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. - Spectator.

Kurkov's style is spare and effective, drawing us with deceptive ease into a dense, complex world full of wonderful characters. -- Michael Palin. Kurkov is the real thing ... Comparisons with Bulgakov's zany Moscow are not far-fetched. -- Kapka Kassabova Guardian. Some people see him as a latter-day Bulgakov; to others he's a Ukrainian Murakami. -- Phoebe Taplin Guardian. 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. Daily Telegraph. Beguiling ... frequently funny ... completely its own thing. it may even be a little bit of a masterpiece -- Sam Leith Financial Times 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. -- Ian Samson Spectator. A sharp and funny examination of the Russian soul -- Eileen Battersby Irish Times

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Born near Leningrad in 1961, Kurkov was a journalist, prison warder, cameraman and screenplay-writer before his novels took off. 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, his first in English translation, was an international bestseller, drawing acclaim from all quarters. He lives in Kiev with his English wife and their three children.

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