The President's Last Love

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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.

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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

Product details

• Authors: G Bird, A Kurkov, Andrey Kurkov, Andrej Kurkow
• Assisted by: George Bird (Translation), Bird George (Translation), The Estate of George Bird (Translation)
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 05.03.2009
• EAN: 9780099485049
• ISBN: 978-0-09-948504-9
• No. of pages: 448
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 28 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Suspense; Ukraine, FICTION / Crime, Russia, FICTION / Cultural Heritage, Fiction in translation, FICTION / Humorous / Black Humor, Narrative theme: Politics, Moscow, Narrative theme: Love and relationships, USSR, Soviet Union, c 2010 to c 2019, FICTION / World Literature / Europe (General), FICTION / World Literature / Russia / 21st Century