Despite some occasional critical bashings, A Matter of Death and Life is perhaps Ukranian Author, Andrey Kurkov's most accessible novel. Closer in length to a novella (a mere 111 pages), A Matter of Death and Life is a read in one sitting work and was released in the wake of his two successful ... Read review
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Advantages: Tragi-comic brilliance and Ukrainian socio-realism - how can you say no? Disadvantages: A little short
Despite some occasional critical bashings, A Matter of Death and Life is perhaps Ukranian Author, Andrey Kurkov's most accessible novel. Closer in length to a novella (a mere 111 pages), A Matter of Death and Life is a read in one sitting work and was released in the wake of his two successful Penguin novels (Death and the Penguin and Penguin Lost - both excellent). Kurkov himself has had a colourful career. Trained as a translator, he worked as ... ...He has also worked as a screenwriter and cameraman, but it seems to be fiction where he has found his niche. Kurkov has his own style, a mix of grim, sometimes brutal poetic-socio-realism and some considerable surrealism. There is always a lot of humour in Kurkov's novels but it is usually very dark humour indeed. But it balances out the occasional bursts of capitalist greed and brutal exercises of power that are scattered throughout his novels. ...
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