Andrey Kurkov: Jimi Hendrix Live in Lviv review - a city speaks its multitudes
A middling work from Ukraine's most famous contemporary novelist still hits home, deftly translated by Reuben Woolley. Review by Hugh Barnes.
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A middling work from Ukraine's most famous contemporary novelist still hits home, deftly translated by Reuben Woolley. Review by Hugh Barnes.
Jimi Hendrix Live in Lviv
This craftily constructed novel undermines and transforms itself in an enjoyable manner without the haze of purple prose
First published in 2012 and now translated into English, a whimsical love letter to Ukraine’s cultural capital from the author of Death and the Penguin
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