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“... The translation sounds a bit awkward, but the sentence highlights an unusual element in the novel: Kurkov writes about relationships which are friendly without being warm, let alone passionate; and they have an unexpected, quite unforeseeable matter-of-fact charm. Viktor is an unsuccessful, unpublished writer. So, at the start of the story, he is delighted to ...”

“... Ukrainian writer who has tried to document the course of the revolution as he experienced it is Andrey Kurkov. ‘The revolution continues but I don’t think it will last long,’ he writes in Ukraine Diaries, as the crowds gather in protest against Yanukovych.* At first Kurkov doesn’t feel much solidarity with ...”