Picnic on ice - Kurkov A. (9789660347588)

Do you know many CIS writers whose books are among the top ten bestsellers in Europe? Perhaps only one, Andrei Kurkov, whose novels have been translated into almost all the major languages ​​of the world, such as English, French, German, Turkish, Spanish, Dutch. . . Eighteen films, documentaries and feature films, have been made based on Kurkov’s books and scripts. And this novel, “Picnic on Ice,” tells the story of journalist Viktor Zolotarev, who simply carries out a strange task from a large newspaper - to write obituaries. What's surprising about a task like this? . Apparently, all the influential people about whose death Victor writes are still alive. . . And the task turns out to be not just a way to earn money, but also a difficult mess, from which it is almost impossible to get out alive.