About the Author:
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, including the cult bestseller Death and the Penguin.
Review:
"Kurkov is a master story teller, using a simple lean style for a narrative that reads like a fable or myth, rich in invention, brought to life by the deadpan depiction of local people and local events" * The Bay, Swansea * "Kurkov masters the details superbly, writes with constant consummate wit and souffle lightness" -- Tom Adair * Scotsman * "Some see him as a latter day Bulgakov; to others he's a Urkanian Murakami... With a characteristic mix of realism and fantasy it [The Gardener from Ochakov] will delight fans... Kurkov combines the mundane details of life in modern Ukraine (minibus taxis, tins of sprats and bottles of moonshine) with surreal elements from thrillers and sci-fi: knife wielding gangsters, or quantum leaps in the midnight suburbs. The plot rattles along like a Kiev commuter train, regularly stopping for vodka, salami and salted cucumbers..." -- Phoebe Taplin * Guardian * "Quickly becomes an absorbing rollercoaster, an understated fantasy with an unlikely but likeable hero" -- Matthew Dennison * The Times * "More than a clash of ages... It's also a tale about fathers and sons and what they need from each other" -- Lesley McDowell * Glasgow Sunday Herald *
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