by Andrei Kurkov · PLAZA Y JANES · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788401328794
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«Picnic sobre el hielo» is the mystery novel by Andrei Kurkov, published by Plaza y Janés in paperback (235 pages, in Spanish).
In post-USSR Kyiv, an unsuccessful writer survives by writing advance obituaries of living people for a newspaper. When one of these notes is published prematurely, his orderly life fills with strange visitors and unsettling commissions; his only companion is Misha, a penguin rescued from the zoo.
First instalment of the «Picnic sobre el hielo» series. Originally published in Russian in 1996 under the title «Смерть постороннего». Shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize in 2002.
For readers of contemporary fiction and mystery novels with humour and a post-Soviet atmosphere.
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.
