The Kukotsky Enigma

Lyudmila Ulitskaya · 2001 CE · Novel · Russian · Contemporary

Pavel Kukotsky, a Moscow gynaecologist who seems to sense what is wrong with a patient before examining her, lives with his wife Elena and their adopted daughter Tanya through the Stalin and Khrushchev years. His practice and the family's secrets collide with the Soviet state's rules on the body. It won the Russian Booker in 2001, the first time a woman received it.

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