The Funeral Party - Brossura

Ulitskaya, Ludmila

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1474602053 ISBN 13: 9781474602051

Casa editrice: W&N, 2015

Riassunto

In a small apartment in New York, in the sweltering mid-summer heat, a group of Russian émigrés 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 . . .

Su questo libro

Descrizione del libro:

A wry, moving and dark story about Russians adrift in New York by award-winning Ludmila Ultiskaya, hailed by Gary Shteyngart as 'one of the most important living writers'.

L'autore:

Ludmila Ultiskaya is one of Russia's most popular and renowned literary figures. A former scientist and the director of Moscow's Hebrew Repertory Theatre, she is the author of thirteen works of fiction, three children's books and six plays. She has been awarded the Austrian State Prize for European Literature, Russia's Booker Prize and has been nominated for the International Man Booker Prize. THE FUNERAL PARTY is her first full-length novel to be published in English.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: W&N
• Data di pubblicazione: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1474602053
• ISBN 13: 9781474602051
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 176