Kangaroo (Masterplots II: World Fiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Joseph Aleshkovsky
- First Published: 1981
- Type of Work: Satire
- Time of Work: 1949-1956
- Setting: Moscow, Yalta, Munich, and an unnamed labor camp
- Principal Characters: Fan Fanych, Kidalla, Josef Stalin, Chernyshevsky
- Genres: Long fiction, Satire
- Subjects: 1950’s, Communism or communists, Prisons, Murder or homicide, 1940’s, Trials, Rape, Germany or German people, Animals, Moscow, Soviet Union or Soviets
- Locales: Munich, Germany, Moscow, Russia, Yalta, Ukraine
The Novel
Kangaroo begins with a fatal phone call in 1949. Fan Fanych, alias “Etcetera,” crook extraordinaire, has been living and working both in jail and out on time borrowed from the MVD (KGB). When he hears the phone ring, he realizes that he is finally being called to account. Kidalla, the KGB investigator in charge of monitoring Fan’s activities, likes to keep tabs on the technological front and offers him a choice of computer-generated crimes. Fan discards various assassination attempts, Pan-Armenian plots, counterfeit bank note schemes, and a...
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