The President's Last Love
$35.51
- Paperback
448 pages
- Release Date
1 December 2008
Summary
A major new novel from the author of Death and The Penguin.
Moscow, 2013. Bunin, the Ukrainian President, has joined other heads of state in an open air swimming pool to drink vodka and celebrate with Putin. During his rise to power Bunin has juggled with formidable and eccentric political and personal challenges. His troubles with his family and his women combine with his difficulties with corrupt businessmen and demanding international allies, but it is his recent heart transplant t…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099485049 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0099485044 |
| Author: | Andrey Kurkov, George Bird |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 448 |
| Release Date: | 1 December 2008 |
| Weight: | 309g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 131mm x 28mm |
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Critics Review
“Kurkov’s eye for the absurdities of Ukrainian life is as sharp as ever.” Sunday Telegraph “Kurkov is a fine satirist and a real, blackly comic find.” Observer
“A bittersweet work, tough and touching at the same time. Kurkov’s style is spare and effective, drawing us with deceptive ease into a dense, complex world full of wonderful characters” – Michael Palin “Inventive, funny and worryingly prophetic” – Tibor Fischer Guardian “Kurkov is a fine satirist and a real, blackly comic find” Observer “Kurkov sports a double whammy: the fiercest of political intelligences married to a truly surrealistic mindset … This is an ambitious, multi-layered political black comedy” Independent “Kurkov’s eye for the absurdities of Ukrainian life is as sharp as ever” Sunday Telegraph
About The Author
Andrey Kurkov
Andrey Kurkov was born in St Petersburg in 1961. Having graduated from the Kiev Foreign Languages Institute, he worked for some time as a journalist, did his military service as a prison warder in Odessa, then became a film cameraman, writer of screenplays and author of critically acclaimed and popular novels.
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