Andrei Kurkov reads from his novel "Samson and the Galician Bath"
Kyiv, 1919: A squad of Red Army soldiers has vanished without a trace, right in the middle of the city, while visiting a banya. When Samson finds bone fragments in the bathhouse’s heating stove, he uncovers a sinister plot. In this third volume featuring the kind-hearted Samson and the clever Nadezhda, the master of absurd storytelling brings early 1920s Kyiv to life. Full of political turmoil, quirky characters, and playful parallels to the present day.
The works of this author—a recipient of the Geschwister Scholl Prize and the Halldór Laxness International Literary Prize—have been translated into over 30 languages.
Introduction: Volker Weichsel
