The Bickford Fuse READ THIS - IT'S WONDERFUL!!!
( Russian - Бикфордов мир ( Bikfordov mir ) - 1993 )
novel by Andre Kurkov
translated by Boris Dralyuk
Published: MacLehose Press - hardback - 2016
ISBN; 0857053361 / 9780857053367
MacLehose Press - paperback - 2016
ISBN: 0857055585 / 978057055583
MacLehose Press - e-book - 2016
eISBN: 1848666055 / 9781848666054
ASIN: B01417JYMM
synopsis
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.
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( Russian - Бикфордов мир ( Bikfordov mir ) - 1993 )
novel by Andre Kurkov
translated by Boris Dralyuk
Published: MacLehose Press - hardback - 2016
ISBN; 0857053361 / 9780857053367
MacLehose Press - paperback - 2016
ISBN: 0857055585 / 978057055583
MacLehose Press - e-book - 2016
eISBN: 1848666055 / 9781848666054
ASIN: B01417JYMM
synopsis
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.
awards
….