A Displaced Person The Later Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin |
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| Author:
| Voinovich, Vladimir |
| Translator:
| Bromfield, Andrew |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8101-2662-6 |
| Publication Date: | Oct 2012 |
| Publisher: | Northwestern University Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $21.95 |
Book Description:
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In A Displaced Person--the third book in a trilogy that began with the modern classic The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin and continued with Pretender to the Throne--author Vladimir Voinovich turns his satirical eye to the difficult last days of the Soviet Communism he so lampooned. Often absurd, A Displaced Person follows a series of random events that brings Chonkin to the United States, where he becomes a farmer and, eventually, a...
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In A Displaced Person--the third book in a trilogy that began with the modern classic The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin and continued with Pretender to the Throne--author Vladimir Voinovich turns his satirical eye to the difficult last days of the Soviet Communism he so lampooned. Often absurd, A Displaced Person follows a series of random events that brings Chonkin to the United States, where he becomes a farmer and, eventually, a member of a congressional delegation sent to the Soviet Union in 1989, during perestroika, to discuss agriculture with the Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. A Displaced Person carries on the rich Russian tradition of an essentially comic response to the absurdities inherent in totalitarian regimes.