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Andrej Kurkow | Dobryj angel smerti | English Title: The Good Angel of Death<br>Novel, 448 Pages

Novel, Hardcover
448 Pages
Published in Aug. 2000

ISBN 978-3-257-06247-2

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Andrej Kurkow
Dobryj angel smerti

Published by Diogenes as Petrowitsch
English Title: The Good Angel of Death

When the unemployed history teacher Kolja moves into a new apartment in the Old Town of Kiev, he finds a book by the Ukrainian poet Tara Schewtschenko with a great many hand-written commentaries. On closer perusal of the book, Kolja finds references to a diary by the poet which was believed to be lost without trace, and which now seems to be in a fort in the middle of the desert in Mangyschlak in Kazakhstan. Kolja sets off for Kazakhstan. Since he has no money for the journey, he stows away on a floating fish factory. A few days later he is set ashore with five litres of water and a substantial store of tinned fish, and a long march ensues. But the sun burns down relentlessly, Kolja's knowledge of the region is scanty, and he soon curses himself for having had such a crazy idea. He nearly perishes in a sandstorm, but a camel belonging to an old Kazakh pulls him out of the sand. The nomad Dshamsched takes the exhausted Kolja into his yurt, and his daughters Natascha and Gulja nurse him back to health ... An exciting adventure novel, an enchanting love story and a protest against all nationalism, whether Russian, Kazakh or Ukrainian.

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