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The President's Last Love
Andrey Kurkov
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Description for The President's Last Love
Paperback. In 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. Translator(s): Bird, George. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 28. Weight in Grams: 322.
'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
A 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Number of pages
448
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
Number of Pages
448
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099485049
SKU
V9780099485049
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Ref
99-28
About 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.
Reviews for The President's Last Love
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 ... Read more
Michael Palin Inventive, funny and worryingly prophetic
Tibor Fischer
Guardian
Kurkov is a fine satirist and a real, blackly comic find
Observer
Kurkov sports ... Read more