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Zusatztext Sergey is at once a war-weary adventurer and a fairy-tale innocent . . . His naive gaze allows Kurkov to get to the heart of a country bewildered by crisis and war, but where kindness can still be found . . . Translated by Boris Dralyuk with sensitivity and ingenuity. Informationen zum Autor Born near Leningrad in 1961, Andrey Kurkov was a journalist, prison warder, cameraman and screenplay-writer before he became well known as a novelist. He received "hundreds of rejections" and was a pioneer of self-publishing, selling more than 75,000 copies of his books in a single year. His novel Death and the Penguin became an international bestseller, translated into more than thirty languages. As well as writing fiction for adults and children, he has become known as a commentator and journalist on Ukraine for the international media. His work of reportage, Ukraine Diaries: Dispatches from Kiev was followed by the novels The Bickford Fuse , Grey Bees , and Jimi Hendrix Live in Lviv (longlisted for the International Booker Prize 2023), as well as his non-fiction work Diary of an Invasion (2022). BORIS DRALYUK is an award-winning translator and the Executive Editor of the Los Angeles Review of Books . He taught Russian literature for a number of years at UCLA and at the University of St Andrews. He is a co-editor (with Robert Chandler and Irina Mashinski) of the Penguin Book of Russian Poetry , and has translated Isaac Babel's Red Cavalry and Odessa Stories , as well as Kurkov's The Bickford Fuse . In 2020 he received the inaugural Kukula Award for Excellence in Non-fiction Book Reviewing from the Washington Monthly . Klappentext Ukraine's most famous novelist dramatises the conflict raging in his country through the adventures of a mild-mannered beekeeper. Vorwort Ukraine's most famous novelist dramatises the conflict raging in his country through the adventures of a mild-mannered beekeeper. Zusammenfassung Ukraine's most famous novelist dramatises the conflict raging in his country through the adventures of a mild-mannered beekeeper....
