Reviews for Our Daily War and Three Years on Fire

“Kurkov is at his best in wryly noting the dark, dense undergrowth of the Russian culture war that underpins Vladimir Putin’s invasion… Clever, passionate”
Roger Boyes, The Times

“The pieces are flawlessly structured; the tone is devoid of self-pity … Yet saturating the book is a note of savage black comedy, the farce of a world made weird by unimaginable violence”
Robin Ashenden, Spectator

“One of Kurkov's many gifts is to humanise without sentimentalising. His dry humour is almost British, with a sense of absurdity like a Slavic Orwell, Amis, or Waugh. His humour is not just a part of his signature style, it is a cultural pressure gauge, capturing a society wrestling with instability, corruption and a traumatic history of invasion – underpinned by a fierce instinct for survival”
Georgia de Chamberet, Bookblast