The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin by Vladimir Voinovich

The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin

Private Chonkin #1

Vladimir Voinovich with Richard Lourie (Translator)

316 pages first pub 1969 (editions)

fiction funny reflective slow-paced
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Ivan Chonkin is a simple, bumbling peasant who has been drafted into the Red Army. Shortly before the outbreak of World War II, he is sent to an obscure village with one week's ration of canned meat and orders to guard a downed plane. Apparently f...

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