Ludmila's Broken English: A Novel - Couverture souple

Pierre, Dbc

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0393329674 ISBN 13 : 9780393329674

Editeur : W. W. Norton & Company, 2007

Synopsis

Ludmila's Broken English "A mix of offbeat composition and intoxicating insight....A maddeningly entertaining encore." Publishers Weekly, starred review Full description

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

DBC Pierre's second novel charts the unlikely meeting between East and West that follows Ludmila Derev's appearance on a Russian brides website. Determined to save her family from starvation in the face of marauding Gnez troops, Ludmila's journey into the world and womanhood is an odyssey of sour wit, even sourer vodka, and a Soviet tractor probably running on goat's wee.

Thousands of miles to the West, the Heath twins are separated after 33 years conjoined at the abdomen. Released for the first time from an institution rumoured to have been founded for an illegitimate child of Charles II, they are suddenly plunged into a round-the-clock world churning with opportunity, rowdy with the chatter of freedom, democracy, self-empowerment and sex.

A wild and raucous picaresque dripping with flavours of British bacon and nasty Russian vodka, Ludmila's Broken English is a tale of tango-ing twins on a journey into the unknown. A ride so outrageously improbable it just may happen, DBC Pierre's second novel confirms his place in the ranks of today's most original storytellers.

Biographie de l'auteur :

DBC Pierre won the MAN Booker Prize, the Whitbread First Novel Award and the Bolinger Everyman Wodehouse Award for Comic Writing in 2003. Ludmila's Broken English is his second novel. He lives in County Leitrim, Ireland.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: W. W. Norton & Company
• Date d'édition: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0393329674
• ISBN 13: 9780393329674
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 330