Books by Andrey Kurkov

Death and the Penguin

by Andrey Kurkov & translated by George Bird

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The Silver Bone

by Andrey Kurkov

Longlisted for the 2024 International Booker Prize

The Silver Bone is by Andrey Kurkov, one of Ukraine's best-known writers. It's a historical novel set in Kyiv in 1919, and (apparently) the first in a series of detective novels. This was a period of fighting between various factions—and is also the setting for The White Guard (1915) by Mikhail Bulgakov. Kurkov apparently took inspiration "from the real-life archives of crime enforcement agencies in Kyiv"–though there's also comedy and magical realism.

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Diary of an Invasion

by Andrey Kurkov

One of Ukraine's best-known novelists, Andrey Kurkov, shares his dispatches from Kyiv as Russia's full-scale invasion of the Ukraine unfolds.

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Grey Bees

by Andrey Kurkov & Boris Dralyuk (translator)

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