»Andrej Kurkows knows how to make a story entertaining and amusing.«

»Kurkov's style is spare and effective, drawing us with deception ease into a dense, complex world full of wonderful characters.«

»A latter-day Bulgakov [. . .] A Ukrainian Murakami.«

»A post-Soviet Kafka.«

»A kind of Ukrainian Kurt Vonnegut.«

»Kurkov writes short, sly, page-turners that specialize in what we might call absurdist noir.«

»Armed with the hilarious animal metaphors that populate his books, Kurkow depicts a humorous and scathing satire of the post-Soviet world, and of a Ukrainian society rediscovering itself, independent and riven by mafia, chaos and corruption.«

»Andrey Kurkov connects the absurd with the ordinary, the comic with the sordid.«

»He works with such imaginative power, which nothing seems to be able to quench, with a humorous and tender tone, with protagonists who don’t have their fate in their hands, yet are saved by goodness and kindness.«

»His prose marked by humour and a contagious humanity evokes magical realism and the absurd.«

»Andrey Kurkov’s writing style moves between the unexpected, the beautiful and the hilarious –– a tone that permits him to tell a tragedy without renouncing the paradox and the satire.«