#Andrei Kurkov

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How to break bread in no man’s land

SOUP’S up: Serhiich (Viktor Zhdanov) and Pashka (Vladimir Yamnenko) in Dmytro Moiseiev’s film Grey Bees on the European Film Festival in South Africa. Photograph courtesy iffr.com THE INTERMINABLE DISCOMFORT of waiting helplessly for something terrible to happen is one of the central devices which hold together the extraordinary Ukrainian film, Grey Bees, directed by Dmytro Moiseiev. You can…

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Muerte con pingüino. Autor: Andrei Kurkov

Origen: Muerte con pingüino. Autor: Andrei Kurkov

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Propaganda e Ucrânia

O conceito de propaganda pode ter diferentes interpretações dependendo do contexto em que é usado. Geralmente, a propaganda refere-se à prática de promover ou publicitar informações, ideias, produtos ou serviços com o objetivo de influenciar a opinião, atitude ou comportamento do público-alvo, o que pode ser efetuado através de diversos meios, nomeadamente a comunicação social e a internet. Em…

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Things I've read in 2022: Jimi Hendrix in Leopolis by Andrei Kurkov

"There are some novels in which all of the sudden characters come out, appear and pester their author, get revenge... Here, I think mine wants to get revenge because I've suppressed him... I haven't even had time to make him meet his woman, as if I haven't kept a promise..."

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Longevity depended on peace. Peace was the source of self-assurance, and self-assurance allowed one to cleanse one's life of needless upsets... Self-assurance led to the future.

(Andrey Kurkov)

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Title: Grey Bees | Author: Andrey Kurkov | Publisher: MacLehose Press (2020)

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Review: Our Daily War, by Andrey Kurkov

PUBLICATION DATE: 18TH JULY 2024HARDBACK ORIGINAL | £ 20.00 | OPEN BORDERS PRESS Blurb Ten years on from the annexation of Crimea, two years on from Russia’s all-out invasion of Ukraine, the Ukrainian people continue to fight back. In the second volume of his war diaries, Andrey Kurkov gives a fresh perspective on a people for whom resistance and solidarity have become a matter of…

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'The war has become the background of life'

As the second anniversary of the full-scale Russian invasion approaches, Ukraine's acclaimed novelist Andrey Kurkov reflects on his country's efforts to keep on 'kipping on'

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2022 in Review (part 2): Fiction and Nonfiction from 5 Indie Presses, Andrey Kurkov & The Children’s BookShow

2022 in Review (part 2): Fiction and Nonfiction from 5 Indie Presses, Andrey Kurkov & The Children’s BookShow

Lack of time has meant that mastering the TBR&R pile has been a frustrating challenge this  year. Many fantastic books have been published in 2022 by independent trade publishers championed via The BookBlast Diary over the years. The intermittent support is mightily appreciated of a couple of donors who stepped into the breach when official funding organizations turned us down not once but three…

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The Silver Bone

4.75/5⭐️

Written by Ukrainian author Andrey Kurkov, the first book in The Kyiv Mysteries series marks his return to fiction after over a year of writing about the ongoing war back in his home country. Before I go on to talk about the story itself I just want to say something, I LOVE MAPS ON BOOKS, they're my guilty pleasure and JUST LOOK AT IT!

ALSO SPOILERS AHEAD SO PROCEED WITH CAUTION!!

Ok, so starting with how gut wrenching Samson's father's death is, and we don't really get to know much about him, just that he saved his son from death but ended up dying himself.

The way Kurkov writes about early soviet Kyiv and the struggles of a mid-war life as well as the life of the main character helps us understand and empathise with Samson but not feel pity for him. As I read and reached the 100 page mark, I found myself feeling both proud and excited for what he would accomplish; I felt for him at the beginning with such a change in his life but as the pages went on, he grew up in the sense that he tried his best to rise up to the situation and also, speaking about how he is written now, not fall into weird clichés some main characters from mystery novels sometimes fall into like being know it alls and extremely lucky when going through the respective mystery. The ending marks the great beginning of a series and the case was wrapped up just fine. I overall enjoyed this book and look forward to the next book in the series.

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The longlist for the 2024 International Booker Prize is as follows: 

Not a River by Selva Almada, translated by Annie McDermott 

Simpatía by Rodrigo Blanco Calderón, translated by Noel Hernández González and Daniel Hahn 

Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck, translated by Michael Hofmann 

The Details by Ia Genberg, translated by Kira Josefsson 

White Nights by Urszula Honek, translated by Kate Webster 

Mater 2-10 by Hwang Sok-yong, translated by Sora Kim-Russell and Youngjae Josephine Bae 

A Dictator Calls by Ismail Kadare, translated by John Hodgson 

The Silver Bone by Andrey Kurkov, translated by Boris Dralyuk 

What I'd Rather Not Think About by Jente Posthuma, translated by Sarah Timmer Harvey   

Lost on Me by Veronica Raimo, translated by Leah Janeczko 

The House on Via Gemito by Domenico Starnone, translated by Oonagh Stransky  

Crooked Plow by Itamar Vieira Junior, translated by Johnny Lorenz

Undiscovered by Gabriela Wiener, translated by Julia Sanches  

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