Subscribe to Read | $0.00
Join today and start reading your favorite books for Free!
Quick and Easy Sign Up!
It takes less then 1 minute to sign up, then you can enjoy Unlimited eBooks.
Join today and start reading your favorite books for Free!
Quick and Easy Sign Up!
It takes less then 1 minute to sign up, then you can enjoy Unlimited eBooks.
Read Anywhere and on Any Device!
Rate this book!
Write a review?
Just wasn’t interested in the story or characters.
a good book, with some bizarre twists, the earler books are better in my opinion like death and the penguini really like kurkovs style of writing, melancholy cynical at times and gently funny - and at times laugh out loud funny
Une lecture sympathique, qui, sous couvert d'aventure légèrement loufoque, est en fait un plaidoyer contre le nationalisme. Un chouette voyage qui nous emmène d'Ukraine au Kazakhstan, plein d'humour et de rebondissements. Je ne suis pas friande des romans d'aventures, et j'oublierai donc cette lecture assez rapidement, mais clairement un bon moment de lecture.
A man finds an old manuscript and is inspired by its writers interest in deeper questions of life. Together with some strange events at his job in "baby food" factory, this inspiration leads him to an adventure all the way to Kazakhstan. It's full of mysterious people and surprising situations. I loved Kurkov's Death and Penguin and liked The President's Last love. This one was not that much for me. It was funny only occasionally and I found its attitude towards women a bit problematic. The phil...
Die Hauptperson Kolja gerät in die haarsträubendsten Abenteuer, die nur der postsowjetische (Nicht-)Alltag bieten kann... Ob er als Nachtwächter ein Drogenlager bewacht, auf einer schwimmenden Fischfabrik in den Armen einer russischen Matrone einen Sturm auf dem kaspischen Meer übersteht, nach einem Drogenrausch in der Wüste von einem Kasachen gerettet und dessen Tochter geschenkt wird, und so weiter... Nach dem Penguin Mischa schafft Kurkow wieder eine anrührende Tiergestalt: das Chameläon Petr...
The book is not super memorable or special but i was happy to read it. I like kurkovs style of writing, melancholy cynical at times and gently funny - and at times laugh out loud funny. For sure it was different too.
Un mélange de road trip, de chasse au trésor, de compte des mille et une nuits sur fond de chute de l’union soviétique, de corruption et d’ésotérisme, un livre écrit sur un ton plaisant avec un humour déroutant, bref un excellent Kourkov qui passe des messages tout en nous distrayant avec malice !
Not much about the blurb on the back prepares us for the wonder of the book between the covers – a strangely annotated copy of a notebook hidden inside a copy of War and Peace left behind when Kolya buys an apartment from an old couple who are emigrating leads to a mysterious robbery, threatening phone calls and the promise of national treasure. However, Kolya lives in Kiev, and the treasure is buried near a no-longer-existing one-time Russian fort in Kazakhstan. Threatened by who-knows-whom, fo...
The Good Angel Of Death by Andrey Kurkov (vintage)This was a random buy in a bookshopo as I liked the cover and the blurb on the back sold it to me. I'm very glad I took the chance as this is a superb book and makes me want to find more of Kurkov's novels.This book is about Kolya who moves into a new flat in Kiev where the last resident has left a bookshelf of books behind. When Kolya opens the big version of Crime And Punishment he finds another book hidden inside a copy of The Kobza Player by
I read and enjoyed Kurkov's A Matter of Death and Life a couple of years ago. It was a fun read. This, however, is not. What we have here in 380 pages of flat, uninteresting prose. Worse, the story isn't very promising either. I like reading novels set in the former Soviet Union (I liked PU-239 and Other Russian Fantasies by Ken Kalfus. Kurkov is Ukrainian, but it's all the same to me. Okay, the plot. Our protagonist is a bit of an amiable drifter type who digs up someone's grave for also no rea...
Description: When Kolya moves into a new flat in Kiev, he finds a book hidden within a volume of 'War and Peace'. His investigations take him to a graveyard, and more specifically to the coffin of a Ukrainian nationalist who died in mysterious circumstances and was buried with a sealed letter and a manuscript.Armed only with three cases of baby milk, which have unexpected hallucinogenic properties, he sets off on what turns out to be a very bizarre journey, meeting a host of unlikely characters
Можна, я відразу почну прискіпуватися до перекладу назви твору - "Лагідний янгол смерті"? От хіба слова "добрий" та "лагідний" - тотожні? Це синоніми? Чи то перекладач записався у співавтори і з доброго янгола зробив лагідного? Втім, якби перекладач взяв на себе аж таку відповідальність, то йому довелося хоча б вичитати текст після машинного перекладу, бо кілька недоречностей останнього я, навіть із температурою, виловила мимохіть.Втім, причепитися хочеться до всієї книги. Чому? От уявіть собі,
