by Andreï Kourkov · Liana Levi · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782867465840
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«Le jardinier d’Otchakov» is the novel by Andreï Kourkov, published by Liana Levi in paperback (352 pages, in French).
Igor lives with his mother in Kiev and prefers going out with friends to working or getting married. A tattooed vagrant offers him a job as a gardener in exchange for a place to sleep; when he puts on an old militiaman’s uniform, he travels to Otchakov, by the Black Sea, in 1957. Among bandits and a red-haired fishmonger, he discovers that history depends on who tells it.
Originally published in Russian in 2010 as «Садовник из Очакова», this French edition is translated by Paul Lequesne.
For readers of literary fiction and translated Russian narrative, with elements of time travel.
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.
