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Andrey Kurkov, born in St Petersburg in 1961, now lives in Kiev. Having graduated from the Kiev Foreign Languages Institute, he worked for some time as a journalist, did his military service as a prison warder at Odessa, then became a film cameraman, writer of screenplays and author of critically acclaimed and popular novels.
Delicious-when Viktor finally finds Misha it is as if Woody Allen had gone to meet Kurtz Spectator There is more magic in his realism than in a library of witches and wizards Scotland on Sunday Rich, authentic and entertaining New Statesman This grotesque post-Soviet world is tinged with Dostoevskian absurdity Independent Death and the Penguin was praised for its brutal humour, tender humanity and all-out guts. Penguin Lost is a sequel equally superlative and twice as readable Ink
