Ludmila's Broken English
"Front page review: As impossible to predict as it is to put down...It's as if when you open the covers Pierre's cartoonish figures bubble up to act out dramas in some alternate dimension." -- Los Angeles Times Book Review "Pierre's sensuous, often vitriolic language suits a story that, while not for the fainthearted, is viciously funny and sad." -- People "Pierre's prose is so exuberant it nearly bounces off the page...Proves Pierre is definitely more than a one-hit wonder." -- Financial Times
A wild and brilliant tale by the winner of the Man Booker Prize and one of our most original storytellers. On a Tuesday in terror-struck London, Blair and Bunny Heath become the first adult conjoined twins ever successfully separated. Les mer
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Ludmila sets out on a journey west to save her family from starvation and marauding Gnez troops. Hers is an odyssey of sour wit, even sourer vodka, and a Soviet tractor probably running on goat's piss. The Heath twins are released from a newly privatized institution rumored to have been founded for an illegitimate royal baby. They are plunged into a round-the-clock world churning with opportunity, rowdy with the chatter of freedom, self-empowerment, and sex. Dangerous cocktails and a Russian Brides Web site throw these unforgettable characters together with explosive results.
DBC Pierre's second novel confirms his place in the ranks of today's most audacious and acclaimed novelists.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- WW Norton & Co
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- ISBN
- 9780393329674
- Utgivelsesår
- 2007
- Format
- 21 x 14 cm
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"Front page review: As impossible to predict as it is to put down...It's as if when you open the covers Pierre's cartoonish figures bubble up to act out dramas in some alternate dimension." -- Los Angeles Times Book Review "Pierre's sensuous, often vitriolic language suits a story that, while not for the fainthearted, is viciously funny and sad." -- People "Pierre's prose is so exuberant it nearly bounces off the page...Proves Pierre is definitely more than a one-hit wonder." -- Financial Times