The Funeral Party
Author | : Ludmila Ulitskaya |
Publisher | : Hachette UK |
Total Pages | : 176 |
Release | : 2015-08-20 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781474602068 |
ISBN-13 | : 1474602061 |
Rating | : 4/5 (061 Downloads) |
Download or read book The Funeral Party written by Ludmila Ulitskaya and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2015-08-20 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 . . .