by Andreï Kourkov · Contemporary French Fiction · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782757821763
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«Laitier de nuit» is the novel by Andreï Kourkov published in 2011 in paperback, with 512 pages, in French.
In Kiev, Dima, a dog trainer at the airport, steals some ampoules he believes are drugs and tests them on his cat. The substance causes an unexpected effect and soon circulates on the city's black market, dragging several characters into absurd and dangerous situations.
Novel by the Ukrainian writer, translated from Russian into French by Paul Lequesne. Its original title is «Ночной молочник», originally published in 2008.
For readers of contemporary fiction who enjoy absurd and surreal stories, in the vein of its author.
Andrii Yuriyovych Kurkov is a Ukrainian author and public intellectual who writes in Russian and Ukrainian. He is the author of 19 novels, including the bestselling Death and the Penguin, nine books for children, and about 20 documentary, fiction and TV movie scripts. His work is currently translated into 37 languages, including English, Spanish, Japanese, French, German, Italian, Chinese, Swedish, Persian and Hebrew, and published in 65 countries. Kurkov, who has long been a respected commentator on Ukraine for the international media, notably in Europe and the United States, has written assorted articles for various publications worldwide. His books are full of black humour, post-Soviet reality and elements of surrealism.
