- Fiction, suspense, Ukraine, fiction, Authors, fiction, Fiction, satire
Viktor is desperate: how can he earn a living as a writer when he has a drawer full of unfinished manuscripts? Then he is asked to write the obituaries of Kiev's VIPs, to be kept on file should they die. His pride at being published soons turns to horror as he is drawn into a terrible conspiracy.
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Contemporary, classical in form, plot-driven and spare.
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
- character-ledplot-driven
- sparerichly built
- effortlessdemanding
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About the book
- Author
- Andreĭ Kurkov
- First published
- 2001
- Pages
- 210
- Publisher
- Random House UK, Vintage, Harvill
- Editions
- 2
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781860469459
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Ukrainian author and public intellectual who writes in Russian
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