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Jimi Hendrix Live in Lviv
Longlisted for the International Booker Prize 2023
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Jimi Hendrix Live in Lviv
A love letter to the beautiful city of Lviv, by the author of Death and the Penguin and Grey Bees
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"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 around 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 of one of the world's most intriguing cities.
Translated from the Russian by Reuben Woolley
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Jimi Hendrix Live in Lviv by Andrey Kurkov is celebrated for its playful and ebullient storytelling, enriched with magical twists and supernatural themes. It is compared to Kurkov's earlier works, capturing the bittersweet charm and satire reminiscent of those titles, and is noted for providing a vivid, multi-layered view of modern-day Ukraine. The enchanting narrative has been likened to famous literary greats and is described as a love letter to Lviv, with characters that are warmly and intricately portrayed.
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ISBN: 9781529427837
Publisher: Quercus Publishing
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 05 October 2023
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: MacLehose Press
Contributors:
- Translated by Reuben Woolley
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 28.0mm
Width: 130.0mm
Height: 192.0mm
Weight: 291g
Pages: 416
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About the Author
Born near Leningrad in 1961, Andrey Kurkov was a journalist, prison warder, cameraman and screenplay-writer before he became well known as a novelist. He received "hundreds of rejections" and was a pioneer of self-publishing, selling more than 75,000 copies of his books in a single year. His novel Death and the Penguin became an international bestseller, translated into more than thirty languages. As well as writing fiction for adults and children, he has become known as a commentator and journalist on Ukraine for the international media. His work of reportage, Ukraine Diaries: Dispatches from Kiev was followed by the novels The Bickford Fuse, Grey Bees, and Jimi Hendrix Live in Lviv (longlisted for the International Booker Prize 2023), as well as his non-fiction work Diary of an Invasion (2022).
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