EAN: 9781529430332

JIMI HENDRIX LIVE IN LVIV - ANDREY KURKOV KARTO...

Ukraine's greatest living novelist New EuropeanA Ukrainian Murakami GuardianA hugely
entertaining romp through the beautiful city of Lviv  by the author of Death and the Penguin
and Grey Bees  now reporting widely on the Russian invasion of Ukraine  his home
country.Strange things are happening in the cosmopolitan town of Lviv  western Ukraine.
Seagulls are circling and the air smells salty  though Lviv is a long way from the sea . . .A
group of ageing hippies meets at the cemetery in the middle of the night  gathered around a
mysterious grave. Among them the ex-KGB officer who means to apologise to all those he spied on
the woman who is allergic to banknotes  and yet works at the money exchange  and Taras  who
makes a living driving at top speed over cobblestones in his ancient Opel Vectra  curing paying
passengers of their kidney stones.Kurkov's novels are often populated by lonely people going
through difficult times  and by his own brand of black humour combined with magic realism
(occasionally vodka-fuelled). All those ingredients are found in Jimi Hendrix Live in
Lviv.Translated from the Russian by Reuben Woolley

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