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This seems to be a real leap forward in Kurkov's writing style, gone is the sparse and laconic Hemingway-like prose of Death and the penguin and others to be replaced by a more detailed at times elegiac style, Maybe this is just a necessity to capture the grand sweep of the events described here. A surreal journey of discovery from Kiev to the Caspian sea, wanders in a desert and meetings with strange pilgrims along the way.
When talking about Kurkov, reviewers frequently mention Gogol and Dosto ...more
When talking about Kurkov, reviewers frequently mention Gogol and Dosto ...more
