Book description
Semyon is disturbed. He has woken up in the living room with blood on
his shirt, an angry wife and no idea where he was the night before.
When this happens several mornings in a row, he realises he needs to
investigate.
After his friend Volodka follows him one night, they discover he's
meeting a tall, blonde woman and accompanying her to her apartment. In
the daytime he doesn't know this woman or where her apartment is and,
odder yet, someone is watching Volodka watching Semyon.
Meanwhile, there are some strange goings-on in Kiev - an unemployed
sniffer-dog handler makes a dangerous discovery, a single mother is
providing breast milk for an unusual recipient and a vengeful cat is
on the loose...
Andrey Kurkov was born in St Petersburg in 1961. Having graduated
from the Kiev Foreign Languages Institute, he worked for some time as a
journalist, did his military service as a prison warder in Odessa, then
became a film cameraman, writer of screenplays and author of critically
acclaimed and popular novels.
