The Case of the General's Thumb

Informationen zum Autor Andrey Kurkov is a writer, journalist, and the current president of PEN Ukraine. He 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 writer of screenplays and author of critically acclaimed and popular novels, including the bestselling Death and the Penguin . Kurkov has long been a respected commentator on Ukraine for the world's media, notably in the U.K., France, Germany, and the United States. Klappentext When the corpse of a distinguished general and presidential adviser is found, attached to an advertising balloon, lieutenant Viktor Slutsky is sent in to investigate. Zusammenfassung When the corpse of a distinguished general and presidential adviser is found, attached to an advertising balloon, lieutenant Viktor Slutsky is sent in to investigate.

Product details

• Authors: Andrey Kurkov, Andrej Kurkow, Andrey Kurkow
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 04.03.2004
• EAN: 9780099455257
• ISBN: 978-0-09-945525-7
• No. of pages: 192
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 13 mm
• Series: Arrow Paperbacks; Arrow Paperbacks
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Ukraine, FICTION / Crime, FICTION / Thrillers / Espionage, FICTION / Cultural Heritage, Fiction in translation, FICTION / Absurdist, FICTION / Humorous / Black Humor, Political / legal thriller, Modern and contemporary fiction, c 1990 to c 1999, USSR, Soviet Union, Modern and contemporary Fiction (post 1945), Satirical fiction and parodies