PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY
"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, his first in English translation, 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 published in 2014, followed by the novel The Bickford Fuse (MacLehose Press, 2016). He lives in Kiev with his British wife and their three children."
Told with black humour and great narrative brio * The Sunday Times * Witty and enjoyable, Boris Dralyuk's translation is playful and subtle . . . It promises rich storytelling in future instalments * Telegraph * Translated from the Russian by poet Boris Dralyuk, Kurkov's prose is brisk but capacious, with a quiet flair . . . And though it is clear-eyed in its depiction of war's sheer senselessness, The Silver Bone has an unusual poetic lightness too * Financial Times * A delightfully dark novel - refreshing, unique, comical * Historical Novel Society * Original and intriguing. Relocates the historical crime novel somewhere between Kafka and The Twilight Zone -- Frank Tallis, author of the Liebermann Papers (Vienna Blood) Rich and compulsive, a modern classic in the making -- Anna Bailey A Kyiv torn to pieces by WWI provides the backdrop for this fascinating series launch . . . With its earthy prose and stunning attention to detail, this stands apart * Publishers Weekly * Wildly enjoyable . . . A glorious aural portrait of a city in dangerous flux . . . I finished The Silver Bone wishing to read more * Guardian * A masterpiece * The Lady *
