Andrey Kurkov: Too Close to Home

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Longlisted for 2024’s International Booker Prize, Andrey Kurkov’s The Silver Bone opens with Kyiv at war – though not as we currently know it. Set in 1919, the novel, written before Russia’s full-scale invasion, is first in a series of historical mysteries set amid the Russian Revolution. Hear Kurkov, one of Ukraine’s finest novelists, in conversation with Adam Biles about uneasy parallels, the complexities of language, and the challenge of writing fiction in wartime.

Categories: Fiction, Language/Translation

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Brilliant Fiction

From international luminaries to local heroes, the programme is packed with stellar fiction. Here’s a taste of some of the brilliant writers coming to our stages this year…

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