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DBC Pierre
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Ludmila's Broken English: A Novel |
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No copies available |
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English |
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Paperback |
| Pages: |
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336 |
| Date: |
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2007-04-17 |
| ISBN: |
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0393329674 |
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W. W. Norton & Company |
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0.05 pounds |
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0.9 x 5.5 x 8.3 inches |
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| Previous givers: |
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2 Sam Webster (Australia), mymorningjava (USA: VA) |
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2 Amelia Schmidt (Australia), S*HINES (USA: OH) |
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Product Description
"A mix of offbeat composition and intoxicating insight....A maddeningly entertaining encore."―Publishers Weekly, starred review A wild and brilliant tale by the winner of the Man Booker Prize and one of our most original storytellers. On a Tuesday in terror-struck London, Blair and Bunny Heath become the first adult conjoined twins ever successfully separated. On a Tuesday in the war-torn Caucasus, Ludmila Derev accidentally kills her grandfather. By December, they find themselves trudging together through a snow field, staring down the barrel of a rebel's gun.
Ludmila sets out on a journey west to save her family from starvation and marauding Gnez troops. Hers is an odyssey of sour wit, even sourer vodka, and a Soviet tractor probably running on goat's piss. The Heath twins are released from a newly privatized institution rumored to have been founded for an illegitimate royal baby. They are plunged into a round-the-clock world churning with opportunity, rowdy with the chatter of freedom, self-empowerment, and sex. Dangerous cocktails and a Russian Brides Web site throw these unforgettable characters together with explosive results.
DBC Pierre's second novel confirms his place in the ranks of today's most audacious and acclaimed novelists.
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