Jimi Hendrix Live in Lviv A Novel |
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Author:
| Kurkov, Andrey |
Translator:
| Woolley, Reuben |
ISBN: | 979-8-8746-2303-6 |
Publication Date: | Aug 2024 |
Publisher: | HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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Book Format: | CD-Audio |
List Price: | USD $51.99 |
Book Description:
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Longlisted for the International Booker Prize, an ode to the 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...
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Longlisted for the International Booker Prize, an ode to the 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 twenty years after Soviet rule.