The President's Last Love

Andrey Kurkov, George Bird

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English

Vintage
01 December 2008

Fiction & Literature; Crime & Mystery

A major new novel from the author of Death and The Penguin.

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

By: Andrey Kurkov
Translated by: George Bird
Imprint: Vintage
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 131mm, Spine: 28mm
Weight: 309g
ISBN: 9780099485049
ISBN 10: 0099485044
Pages: 448
Publication Date: 01 December 2008
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

ANDREY KURKOV, born in St Petersburg in 1961, now lives in Kiev. Having graduated from the Kiev Foreign Languages Institute, he worked for some time as a journalist, did his military service as a prison warder at Odessa, then became a film cameraman, writer of screenplays and author of critically acclaimed and popular novels including Death and the Penguin.

Reviews for The President's Last Love

Kurkov's eye for the absurdities of Ukrainian life is as sharp as ever. - Sunday Telegraph <br> Kurkov is a fine satirist and a real, blackly comic find. - Observer