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'Dazzling . . . [An] engrossing study of a vivacious personality slipping away' THE TIMES

'Rich in detail, elusive in meaning, light in touch' MOSCOW TIMES

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 . . .

The Funeral Party

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'Dazzling . . . [An] engrossing study of a vivacious personality slipping away' THE TIMES'Rich in detail, elusive in meaning,... Read more

    Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
    Publication Date: 20/08/2015
    ISBN13: 9781474602051, 978-1474602051
    ISBN10: 1474602053

    Number of Pages: 176

    Fiction , Contemporary Fiction

    Description

    'Dazzling . . . [An] engrossing study of a vivacious personality slipping away' THE TIMES

    'Rich in detail, elusive in meaning, light in touch' MOSCOW TIMES

    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 . . .

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