The Bickford fuse
Kurkov, Andreĭ2017
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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.
Main title:
The Bickford fuse / Andrey Kurkov ; translated from the Russian by Boris Dralyuk.
Author:
Kurkov, AndreĭDralyuk, Boris, translator
Work:
Imprint:
London : MacLehose Press, 2017.
Collation:
348 pages ; 20 cm
Notes:
Translated from the Russian.
ISBN:
9781848666061 (pbk)
Dewey class:
891.735FICTION
Language:
EnglishRussian
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BRN:
2499930