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"An ebullient black comedy... Reminiscent of the best Soviet dissident literature" (Daily Telegraph)
"Full of touches of grim insight and tactful surrealism, with just enough of the absurd to suggest a cross between John le Carre's Smiley and Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita" (John Burnside Scotland on Sunday)
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"Full of touches of grim insight and tactful surrealism, with just enough of the absurd to suggest a cross between John le Carre's Smiley and Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita" (John Burnside Scotland on Sunday)
"Kurkov is a fine satirist and a real, blackly comic find" (Observer)
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An international thriller, shot through with black satire and authentic detail, by the author of the highly acclaimed Death & the Penguin
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- PublisherVintage
- Publication date2004
- ISBN 10 0099455250
- ISBN 13 9780099455257
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