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Moscow, January 2013. Bunin, the Ukrainian President, has joined other heads of state in an open air swimming pool, to celebrate the Fourth Centenary of the Romanov Dynasty. Treading water, and drinking vodka with Putin, he's on top of his game and in fine health. Yet two years later Bunin undergoes a heart transplant, with very serious repercussions...
Rewind to the early '90s; the Soviet Union has crumbled and in the midst of a new independent Ukraine struggling to find its feet, a young Sergey Pavlovich Bunin is on the make. Casting aside a career as a catering manager he enters the political fray and begins the long and precarious journey to the top, at the same time looking after his impoverished mother and enfeebled brother.
Spanning forty years, The President's Last Love is Kurkov's most ambitious work to date, and delivers an intricately woven and often hilarious political satire on life before and after the Iron Curtain. A colossus of a novel concerning love, power, corruption, lies and potatoes.
Rewind to the early '90s; the Soviet Union has crumbled and in the midst of a new independent Ukraine struggling to find its feet, a young Sergey Pavlovich Bunin is on the make. Casting aside a career as a catering manager he enters the political fray and begins the long and precarious journey to the top, at the same time looking after his impoverished mother and enfeebled brother.
Spanning forty years, The President's Last Love is Kurkov's most ambitious work to date, and delivers an intricately woven and often hilarious political satire on life before and after the Iron Curtain. A colossus of a novel concerning love, power, corruption, lies and potatoes.
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"Kurkov is a fine satirist and a real, blackly comic find" (Observer)
"Kurkov's eye for the absurdities of Ukrainian life is as sharp as ever" (Sunday Telegraph)
"Kurkov is hugely talented. Truly very funny" (Time Out)
"Kurkov conjures up both Gogol and Dostoyevsky - Genuinely original" (Scotsman)
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"Kurkov's eye for the absurdities of Ukrainian life is as sharp as ever" (Sunday Telegraph)
"Kurkov is hugely talented. Truly very funny" (Time Out)
"Kurkov conjures up both Gogol and Dostoyevsky - Genuinely original" (Scotsman)
A major new novel from the author of Death and The Penguin
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- PublisherHarvill Secker
- Publication date2007
- ISBN 10 1843432579
- ISBN 13 9781843432579
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages448
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