
The Lost Soldiers
Andrey Kurkov(Author)
MacLehose Press
Will be published approx. on 6. May 2027
Book
Paperback/Softback
352 pages
978-1-5294-4771-2 (ISBN)
Description
The third novel in the Kyiv Mysteries series - a historical crime series set in 1919 that began with the International Booker-longlisted The Silver Bone
Reviews / Votes
The Lost Soldiers is not a conventional crime novel. Magic realist elements are introduced as Samson sews his ear, severed in an earlier adventure, into a suspect's greatcoat, enabling him to listen in on conversations when he is not present. Eccentric characters fill its pages. However, it is a very engaging work of fiction, told with wit and imagination by a man often described as Ukraine's greatest living writer. * Sunday Times * Kurkov vividly depicts a city filled with political turbulence - and draws ominous parallels with present day * The iPaper *More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Quercus Publishing
Product notice
Paperback (UK-B)
Illustrations
N/A
Dimensions
Height: 198 mm
Width: 129 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
347 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-5294-4771-2 (9781529447712)
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Persons
Born near Leningrad in 1961, Andrey Kurkov was a journalist, prison warder, cameraman and screenplay-writer before he became well known as a novelist. He received "hundreds of rejections" and was a pioneer of self-publishing, selling more than 75,000 copies of his books in a single year. His novel Death and the Penguin became an international bestseller, translated into more than thirty languages. As well as writing fiction for adults and children, he has become known as a commentator and journalist on Ukraine for the international media. His work of reportage, Ukraine Diaries: Dispatches from Kiev was followed by the novels The Bickford Fuse, Grey Bees, and Jimi Hendrix Live in Lviv (longlisted for the International Booker Prize 2023), as well as his non-fiction work Diary of an Invasion (2022).