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Awkward and simple Private Chonkin is left behind in a remote village and quickly reverts to peasant life, until the secret police hear about a mysterious soldier lurking behind the front line
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Ivan Chonkin is a simple, bumbling peasant who has been drafted into the Red Army. Shortly before the outbreak of World War II, he is sent to an obscure village with one week's ration of canned meat and orders to guard a downed plane. Apparently forgotten by his unit, Chonkin resumes his life as a peasant and passes the war peacefully tending the village postmistress's garden. Just after the German invasion, the secret police discover this mysterious soldier lurking behind the front line. Their pursuit of Chonkin and his determined resistance lead to wild skirmishes and slapstick encounters. Vladimir Voinovich's hilarious satire ridicules everything that was sacred in the Soviet Union, from agricultural reform to the Red Army to Stalin, in a refreshing combination of dissident conscience and universal humor.
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Text: English, Russian (translation)
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- PublisherFarrar, Straus and Giroux
- Publication date1977
- ISBN 10 0374186219
- ISBN 13 9780374186210
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages315
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