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The Senility of Vladimir P
Michael Honig
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Description for The Senility of Vladimir P
Hardback. As provocative and spiky as Look Who's Back, Michael Honig's The Senility of Vladimir P is a strangely moving, blackly funny and frankly brilliant calling to account of Vladimir Putin, of power and greed, and of our own moral complicity. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148. .
A vodka-soaked tragicomedy of bribes, backhanders and a certain ex-president of Russia going catastrophically awry. Former Russian president, Vladimir P, is going senile, marooned in a world of memories from his years in power. To get him out of the way, he has been exiled to his luxury dacha, where he is served by a coterie of bickering house staff. Only Sheremetev, the guileless nurse charged with Vladimir's round-the-clock care, is unaware that everyone else is busily using every means at their disposal to skim money from their employer's inexhaustible riches. But when the nurse suddenly needs ... Read more
A vodka-soaked tragicomedy of bribes, backhanders and a certain ex-president of Russia going catastrophically awry. Former Russian president, Vladimir P, is going senile, marooned in a world of memories from his years in power. To get him out of the way, he has been exiled to his luxury dacha, where he is served by a coterie of bickering house staff. Only Sheremetev, the guileless nurse charged with Vladimir's round-the-clock care, is unaware that everyone else is busily using every means at their disposal to skim money from their employer's inexhaustible riches. But when the nurse suddenly needs ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Atlantic Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
320
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781782398066
SKU
V9781782398066
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About Michael Honig
Michael Honig is a former doctor and the author of one previous novel, Goldblatt's Descent (Atlantic 2013). He lives in London with his wife and son.
Reviews for The Senility of Vladimir P
A story worth telling. Many of the events described are happening now and often not very far away
Guardian
An exciting tale of how even the best men can face temptation
Irish Examiner
Blackly comic... A novel about an innocent who learns too late that when a country goes to the dogs, so, all too often, ... Read more
Guardian
An exciting tale of how even the best men can face temptation
Irish Examiner
Blackly comic... A novel about an innocent who learns too late that when a country goes to the dogs, so, all too often, ... Read more