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The President's Last Love

Andrey Kurkov
Vertaald door: George Bird

Vintage Publishing, 448 blz., paperback, 2024, ISBN 9780099485049

'Kurkov's style is spare and effective, drawing us with deceptive ease into a dense, complex world full of wonderful characters' - Michael Palin

Moscow, 2013. Bunin, the Ukrainian President, has joined other heads of state in an open-air swimming pool to drink vodka and celebrate with Putin. During is rise to power Bunin has juggled with formidable and eccentric political and personal challenges. His troubles with his family and his women combine with his difficulties with corrupt businessmen and demanding international allies, but it is his recent heart transplant that worries him most.

Since the operation he has started to develop freckles, and his heart donor's mysterious widow seems to have moved in with him...

Spanning 40 years, the President's Last Love is a hilarious satire on love, lies and life before and after the Iron Curtain.
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