Ludmila's Broken English: A Novel - Hardcover

Pierre, Dbc

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0393062376 ISBN 13: 9780393062373

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Co., 2006

Synopsis

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. On a Tuesday in the war-torn Caucasus, Ludmila Derev accidentally kills her grandfather. By December, they find themselves trudging together through a snow field, staring down the barrel of a rebel's gun. 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.

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Review:

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.

Pierre's sensuous, often vitriolic language suits a story that, while not for the fainthearted, is viciously funny and sad.

Pierre's prose is so exuberant it nearly bounces off the page....Proves Pierre is definitely more than a one-hit wonder.

Book Description:

Ludmila's Broken English by DBC Pierre:

On a Tuesday in terror-struck London, Blair and Bunny Heath became the first adult conjoined twins ever successfully separated.

On a Tuesday in the war-torn Caucasus, Ludmila Derev killed her grandfather.

By the 11th of December, they had something very much in common.

Enter a snakes-and-ladders world of liberal and conservative high jinks in this dark tale of desire, bullets, globalisation, and the full English breakfast.

About this edition

• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Co.
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0393062376
• ISBN 13: 9780393062373
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 336