The Good Angel of Death - Softcover

Kurkov, Andrey

Softcover

ISBN 10: 184655117X ISBN 13: 9781846551178

Verlag: Harvill Secker, 2009

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Reseña del editor:

When Kolya moves into a new flat in Kiev, he finds a book hidden within a volume of War and Peace. Intrigued by the annotations that appear on every page, Kolya sets out to discover more about the scribbler. His investigations take him to a graveyard, and more specifically to the coffin of a Ukrainian nationalist who died in mysterious circumstances and was buried with a sealed letter and a manuscript. An exhumation under cover of darkness reveals that an item of great national importance is buried near a fort in Kazakhstan.
As nightwatchman at a baby-milk factory, Kolya exposes himself to the attentions of a criminal gang, and so he decides to leave Kiev for a while. Armed with only three cases of baby milk, which have unexpected hallucinogenic properties, he sets off on what turns out to be a very bizarre journey: crossing the Caspian Sea and traversing the deserts of Kazakhstan. He meets a host of unlikely characters on the way, including Bedouins, ex-KGB officers and a spirit-like companion in the form of a chameleon...
The Good Angel of Death is a classic, first-rate Kurkov yarn which is sure to delight old and new fans alike.

Biografía del autor:

Andrey Kurkov was born in St Petersburg in 1961. Having graduated from the Kiev Foreign Languages Institute, he worked for some time as a journalist, did his military service as a prison warder in Odessa, then became a film cameraman, writer of screenplays and author of critically acclaimed and popular novels.

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• Verlag: Harvill Secker
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
• ISBN 10: 184655117X
• ISBN 13: 9781846551178
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 384