The President's Last Love. Die letzte Liebe des Präsidenten, englische Ausgabe
(Sprache: Englisch)
A major new novel from the author of Death and The Penguin.
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A major new novel from the author of Death and The Penguin.
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'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 PalinA sharp, engaging satire that delves into Ukraine's history.
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 that worries him most. Since the operation he has started to develop freckles, and his heart donor's mysterious widow seems to have moved in with him...
Spanning forty years, The President's Last Love is a hilarious satire on love, lies and life before and after the Iron Curtain.
Autoren-Porträt von Andrej Kurkow
Andrey Kurkov is a writer, journalist, and the current president of PEN Ukraine. He 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 writer of screenplays and author of critically acclaimed and popular novels, including the bestselling Death and the Penguin. Kurkov has long been a respected commentator on Ukraine for the world's media, notably in the U.K., France, Germany, and the United States.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Andrej Kurkow
- 2009, 448 Seiten, Masse: 12,9 x 19,6 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Übersetzer: George Bird
- Verlag: VINTAGE
- ISBN-10: 0099485044
- ISBN-13: 9780099485049
- Erscheinungsdatum: 03.09.2008
Sprache:
Englisch
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"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
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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
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