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Item Details
Title:
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THE FUNERAL PARTY
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By: |
Ludmila Ulitskaya |
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Paperback |
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£9.99 |
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£7.29 |
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ISBN 10: |
1474602053 |
ISBN 13: |
9781474602051 |
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Publisher: |
ORION PUBLISHING CO |
Pub. date: |
20 August, 2015 |
Pages: |
176 |
Description: |
A wry, moving and dark story about Russians adrift in New York by award-winning Ludmila Ultiskaya, hailed by Gary Shteyngart as 'one of the most important living writers'. |
Synopsis: |
In a small apartment in New York, in the sweltering mid-summer heat, a group of Russian emigres gather around the sickbed of an artist named Alik. Nina, his wife, is desperate for Alik to be baptised; Irina, his ex-lover, a circus acrobat turned lawyer, quietly pays the bills; elderly Maria dispenses magical herbs; and Maika, Irina's fifteen-year-old daughter, prepares to lose the only man to make her laugh. As the visitors fuss and reminisce over Alik, in a corner of the crowded room the television shows the uprising outside the White House in Moscow and the tanks closing in on the city ... |
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UK |
Imprint: |
Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
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