The Last Hiccup

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Pub Date 01 Apr 2012 | Archive Date 01 Sep 2012

Description

A poignant and surreal fable about the nature of good and evil filled with a dazzling cast of characters … and millions of hiccups

A darkly funny, tragic, and ultimately heroic novel set in 1930s Russia, The Last Hiccup is the story of Vladimir, an eight–year–old boy stricken with a case of the hiccups — that lasts over a decade.

Put through a series of extraordinary, often bizarre treatments by a famous physician, Sergei Namestikov, Vlad is spirited away from his rural home and doting mother to a hospital in Moscow. But Sergei’s chief medical rival, the brilliant Alexander Afiniganov, believes that beneath Vladimir’s mirror–less eyes lurks a pure, unbridled evil, and Vlad is removed from polite society.

Isolated from everyone and everything — save his hiccups — Vladimir grows up to find inner peace among the hiccupping. On his way back into the world he once knew, through a country now in the midst of war, he encounters many strange people and situations, and worries about what would happen to him should a cure for his now–comforting affliction be found.

A poignant and surreal fable about the nature of good and evil filled with a dazzling cast of characters … and millions of hiccups

A darkly funny, tragic, and ultimately heroic novel set in...


Available Editions

EDITION Paperback
ISBN 9781550229738
PRICE $16.95 (USD)
PAGES 240