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Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext Igor is confident his old Soviet policeman's uniform will be the best costume at the party. But he hasn't gone far before he realises something is wrong. The streets are unusually dark and empty! and the only person to emerge from the shadows runs away from him in terror. "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 "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 "Quickly becomes an absorbing rollercoaster, an understated fantasy with an unlikely but likeable hero" -- Matthew Dennison The Times Zusammenfassung Igor is confident his old Soviet policeman's uniform will be the best costume at the party. But he hasn't gone far before he realises something is wrong. The streets are unusually dark and empty! and the only person to emerge from the shadows runs away from him in terror.
