Jimi Hendrix Live in Lviv
Longlisted for the International Booker Prize 2023
by Andrey Kurkov
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Pub Date Apr 04 2023 | Archive Date Apr 28 2023
Quercus Books | MacLehose Press
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Description
"Both a pleasure and a testament to life in Ukraine, before" Sunday Times
"Ukraine's greatest living novelist" New European
"A Ukrainian Murakami" Guardian
A love letter to the beautiful city of Lviv, by the author of Death and the Penguin and Grey Bees.
Strange things are afoot in the cosmopolitan city of Lviv, western Ukraine. Seagulls are circling and the air smells salty, though Lviv is a long way from the sea . . .
A ragtag group gathers round a mysterious grave in Lychakiv Cemetery - among them an ex-KGB officer and an ageing hippy he used to spy on. Before long, Captain Ryabtsev and Alik Olisevych are teaming up to discover the source of the "anomalies".
Meanwhile, Taras - who makes a living driving kidney-stone patients over cobblestones in his ancient Opel Vectra - is courting Darka, who works nights at a bureau de change despite being allergic to money.
The young lovers don't know it, but their fate depends on two lonely old men, relics of another era, who will stop at nothing to save their city.
Shot through with Kurkov's unique brand of black humour and vodka-fuelled magic realism, Jimi Hendrix Live in Lviv is an affectionate portrait one the world's most intriguing cities.
Translated from the Russian by Reuben Woolley
Available Editions
| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9781529427820 |
| PRICE | £16.99 (GBP) |
| PAGES | 416 |
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Featured Reviews
Rachel Louise A, Reviewer
Pleasantly surprised by this book because I absolutely loved it. This is a Bulgakov/China Mieville style tale about a cast of characters living in Lviv and trying to get to the bottom of an environmental anomaly which is making the city smell like sea and the birds go insane.
I have to say this is one of the funniest books I have ever read and at one point I was laughing so much I was wiping away years. It is such a hilarious little novel and I found myself to drawn into the characters and the world. It was brilliantly paced and structured with a mix of comedy and political criticism.
Had so much fun with this book and I honestly adored it. I don’t know if I can take it seriously enough for the International Booker but I will be backing it with a glass of vodka all the way if it wins.
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