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Andrej Kurkow

Bonfire

Published by Diogenes as Herbstfeuer

Original Title: S tocki zrenija travy

›How can I burn my husband? Where does my new liver come from? How can I dispose of my Steinway grand piano?‹ Eight Ukrainian stories provide answers to these and other questions. Ivan becomes a regular customer in a small gourmet restaurant and comes to know and treasure its head chef, Dymich. One day, Dymich disappears, but he has purposely left behind a series of dishes for Ivan, which his niece Vera is to prepare for him and serve up on five consecutive evenings. All of the dishes taste exquisite, but why does Ivan later discover tiny grains of sand between his teeth? And what does the lawyer want who turns up for dinner on the fifth night?

Contemporary Literature
240 pages
2007

978-3-257-06606-7

Andrej

Kurkow

Andrej Kurkow, born in 1961 in what was then Leningrad, has lived in Kyiv since his childhood. He studied foreign languages and became a newspaper editor and screenwriter. Since his novel Death and the Penguin, he has been considered one of the Ukraine’s most important contemporary authors. His work has been translated into forty-five languages. Kurkow lives with his family in Ukraine as a freelance writer. In 2023, he was made an honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

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Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Zurich

»Like the Ukrainians Gogol and Bulgakov, Kurkov is a master of the improbable, the absurd and the bizarre. With both empathy and admiration, he gives an exaggerated description of the stoic resourcefulness of the socially outcast.«

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