Andrey Kurkov
Andrey Kurkov Андрій Юрійович Курков
Andrey Yuryevich Kurkov is a contemporary Ukrainian author and public intellectual who writes in Russian. He is the author of 19 novels, including the bestselling Death and the Penguin, nine books for children, and about 20 documentary, fiction and TV movie scripts. Kurkov, who has long been a respected commentator on Ukraine for the international media, notably in Europe and the United States, has written assorted articles for various publications worldwide. His books are full of black humor, post-Soviet reality and elements of surrealism. - Wikipedia
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The novel, originally published in 1996 in Russian (as Смерть постороннего, Smert' postoronnego), was translated and published in English in 2001. The events of the novel take place in 1996 and 1997 in Kyiv. It is a satirical crime thriller about an obituary writer named Viktor whose sole companion is his pet penguin. The booki s a bleak, satirical work with surreal elements and dark humor.
The book is about a beekeeper named Sergey Sergeyich who lives in Donbas’s “gray zone,” between areas controlled by the Ukrainian military and those in the hands of Russia-backed separatists.
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