The Bickford Fuse
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Author | : Andrey Kurkov |
Publisher | : MacLehose Press |
Total Pages | : 395 |
Release | : 2016-05-05 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1848666055 |
Catch-22 meets The Brothers Karamazov in the last great satire of the Soviet Era The Great Patriotic War is stumbling to a close, but a new darkness has fallen over Soviet Russia. And for a disparate, disconnected clutch of wanderers - many thousands of miles apart but linked by a common goal - four parallel journeys are just beginning. Gorych and his driver, rolling through water, sand and snow on an empty petrol tank; the occupant of a black airship, looking down benevolently as he floats above his Fatherland; young Andrey, who leaves his religious community in search of a new life; and Kharitonov, who trudges from the Sea of Japan to Leningrad, carrying a fuse that, when lit, could blow all and sundry to smithereens. Written in the final years of Communism, The Bickford Fuse is a satirical epic of the Soviet soul, exploring the origins and dead-ends of the Russian mentality from the end of World War Two to the Union's collapse. Blending allegory and fable with real events, and as deliriously absurd as anything Kurkov has written, it is both an elegy for lost years and a song of hope for a future not yet set in stone. Translated from the Russian by Boris Dralyuk
Author | : Bickford, Smith & Company |
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Total Pages | : 32 |
Release | : 1906* |
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Author | : Ensign Bickford Company |
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Total Pages | : 74 |
Release | : 2013-06 |
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ISBN | : 9781258760892 |
Author | : Ensign-Bickford Company |
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Total Pages | : 44 |
Release | : 1936 |
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Author | : John Edwards Ellsworth |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1936 |
Genre | : Explosives |
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Author | : Ensign-Bickford Company, Simsbury, Conn |
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Total Pages | : 21 |
Release | : 1957* |
Genre | : Detonators |
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Author | : ROBERT J. MCHENRY |
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Total Pages | : 1 |
Release | : 1956 |
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Author | : Andrey Kurkov |
Publisher | : Melville House |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 2011-06-07 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1935554557 |
"No summary can do justice to the strange appeal of this unusual, short book, which is at once a crime novel, a comic novel and a serious political satire on contemporary Ukraine." —Anne Applebaum, The Wall Street Journal With the collapse of the Soviet Union, newly-free Ukraine is a shell-shocked land . . . In poverty-and-violence-wracked Kyiv, unemployed writer Viktor Zolotaryov leads a down-and-out life with his only friend, Misha, a penguin that he rescued when the local zoo started getting rid of animals it couldn't feed. Even more nerve-wracking for Victor: a local mobster has taken a shine to Misha and wants to borrow him for events. But Viktor thinks he’s finally caught a break when he lands a well-paying job at the Kyiv newspaper writing “living obituaries” of local dignitaries—articles to be filed for use when the time comes. The only thing is, the time always seems to come as soon as Viktor finishes writing the article. Slowly understanding that his own life may be in jeopardy, Viktor also realizes that the only thing that might be keeping him alive is his penguin.
Author | : John Edwards Ellsworth |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 211 |
Release | : 1936 |
Genre | : Explosives |
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Author | : Ensign-Bickford Company |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 38 |
Release | : 1932 |
Genre | : Detonators |
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