Jimi Hendrix Live in Lviv - A Novel

"A bittersweet relic of a sunnier age . . . . A joyous caper . . . playful and ebullient, shot through with magical twists and supernatural turns." -- Observer Longlisted for the International Booker Prize, a Murakami-esque ode to the revered cultural capital of western Ukraine, filled with a charming cast of eccentrics who together make up the beating heart of the city. Strange, almost magical, things are afoot in Lviv. Seagulls circle overhead while the passing breeze carries a briny whiff, even though the coast is far away. A ragtag group of aging hippies gather around a mysterious grave in Lychakiv Cemetery. Among them are an ex-KGB officer and the old subversive he once spied upon. Soon, Captain Ryabtsev and Alik Olisevych band together to uncover the source of the city''s "anomalies." Meanwhile, across Lviv, Taras, a cab driver, ferries kidney-stone patients over cobblestone streets in his ancient Opel Vectra. He''s wooing Darka, a woman who works nights at a currency exchange. The young lovers don''t know it, but their fate depends on the two lonely old men, relics of a bygone era, who will stop at nothing to save their city. Blending Shakespearean comedy with Andrey Kurkov''s unique brand of black humor and vodka-fueled magic realism, Jimi Hendrix Live in Lviv , is a postcard from a more optimistic era. Populated by a delightful cast of oddballs, Kurkov''s novel is an affectionate snapshot of a country finding itself and reclaiming its lost dreams after twenty years of Soviet rule. Translated from the Russian by Reuben Woolley

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Andrey Kurkov
• Edition: Harper Collins Usa
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre de poche
• Sortie: 13.08.2024
• EAN: 9780063354548
• ISBN: 978-0-06-335454-8
• Pages: 416
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 203 mm x 24 mm
• Catégories: Littérature > Littérature (récits); Humorous fiction, Narrative theme: Sense of place, Magical Realism, FICTION: Literary, FICTION: Romance / Contemporary, FICTION: Small Town & Rural *, FICTION: Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology, FICTION: Absurdist *, FICTION: Humorous / General, FICTION: Political, FICTION: World Literature / Russia / 21st Century, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Fiction: Traditional stories, myths and fairy tales, Modern and Contemporary romance