The Funeral Party

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 . . .

Product details

• Authors: Ludmila Ulitskaya, Ulitskaya Ludmila
• Publisher: Weidenfeld and Nicolson
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.08.2015
• EAN: 9781474602051
• ISBN: 978-1-4746-0205-1
• No. of pages: 176
• Dimensions: 133 mm x 196 mm x 14 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; New York, FICTION / General, Eastern Europe, Russia, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Family Life / Siblings, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Russian & Former Soviet Union, Modern and contemporary fiction, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Russian & Soviet