The Good Angel of Death

Zusatztext

<p>When Kolya moves into a new flat in Kiev, he discovers an annotated manuscript hidden inside a copy of<i>War and Peace</i>and decides to track down its author, even if it means digging up the grave of a Ukranian nationalist who died in mysterious circumstances.</p><p>An exhumation reveals that an item of great national importance is buried near a fort in Kazakstan so when, during his night shift as a security guard, Kolya is threatened with mysterious phone calls, he sets off on what turns out to be a very bizarre journey. Along the way he meets a host of unlikely characters including Bedouins, ex-KGB officers and a spirit-like companion in the form of a chameleon.</p><p>From the author of cult bestseller,<i>Death and the Penguin.</i></p>

Autorenportrait

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<i>Death and the Penguin</i>.

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