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The Funeral Party

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  • Engelsk
  • 176 sider

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'Dazzling . . . [An] engrossing study of a vivacious personality slipping away' THE TIMES

'Rich in detail, elusive in meaning, light in touch' MOSCOW TIMES

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 . . .

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Detaljer
  • SprogEngelsk
  • Sidetal176
  • Udgivelsesdato20-08-2015
  • ISBN139781474602051
  • Forlag Weidenfeld & Nicolson
  • FormatPaperback
Størrelse og vægt
  • Vægt161 g
  • Dybde1,4 cm
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    10 cm
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    13,3 cm
    19,6 cm

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