The Case of the General's Thumb

Humor & Entertainment

Andrey Kurkov

Humor

VINTAGE (RAND)

Viktor - last seen in Death and the Penguin fleeing Mafia vengeance on an Antarctica-bound flight booked for Penguin Misha - seizes a heaven-sent opportunity to return to Kiev with a new identity. Clear now as to the enormity of abandoning Misha, then convalescent from a heart-transplant, Viktor determines to make amends. Viktor falls in with a Mafia boss who engages him to help in his election campaign, then introduces him to men who might further his search for Misha, said to be in a private zoo in Chechnya. What ensues is for Viktor both a quest and an odyssey of atonement, and, for the reader, an experience as rich, topical and illuminating as Death and the Penguin.

Penguin Lost

Literature & Fiction

Humor & Satire

Random House]

Bickford Fuse

Quercus Publishing

The Silver Bone: Longlisted for the International Booker Prize 2024 (The Kyiv Mysteries)

Genre Fiction

MacLehose Press

The Silver Bone

Jimi Hendrix Live in Lviv: Longlisted for the International Booker Prize 2023

In Lviv, a multi-ethnic town in Galicia, strange things are happening. 
And it’s not to do with the aged hippies who are gathering around a 
mysterious grave in the cemetery by night. Nor about the former 
KGB-man who wants to apologise to the people he spied on. And nor 
is it about the fact that a young woman with an allergy to money is 
working in the ›bureau de change‹. And it’s certainly not about the 
ancient Opel Vectra racing at full speed over the cobblestones to cure 
patients with kidney stones. 
No, in Lviv, far stranger things are happening. Seagulls are circling in 
the sky, the air smells salty: it seems as though the town, situated far 
inland in the West of the Ukraine, is being haunted by the sea ... 
In Andrej Kurkow’s Lviv, miracles can happen in every little side street 
and on every street corner. And that’s all down to the power of love, 
the boundless imagination of a writer – and the immortal music of Jimi Hendrix.

Jimi Hendrix Live in Lviv

Death and the Penguin

Vintage Classics

Diary of an Invasion

Biographies & Memoirs

Professionals & Academics

Mountain Leopard Press

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