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The Bickford Fuse
The Bickford Fuse | Andrey Kurkov
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Catch-22 meets The Brothers Karamazov in the last great satire of the Soviet Era 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 (…more)
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This darkly comic tale set at the end of the Great Patriotic War highlights the absurdities, terrors and uncertainties of the totalitarian system. Written in the final years of the USSR it questions the role of "Soviet Man" in Russia's seemingly endless circling of its own past. It draws on the grand tradition of eastern European satire, the comparison to Murakami I'm not so sure about... #TacklingTheTBR

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