Name: The Funeral Party
ISBN: 9780805211320

Ludmila Ulitskaya

As a group of Russian immgrants attends the deathbed of Alik, a charismatic artist, they reminisce about their individual relationships with him, argue about the past, and worry about their Russian homeland as they coup against Gorbachev unfolds, in an evocative story of Russian TmigrT life in New York City. Reprint. 12,500 first printing.

The Funeral Party

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Li͡udmila Ulit͡skai͡a

Story of dying Alik, a charismatic artist, which features his wife and two ex-lovers as they attend his sick bed during the last few days of his life. Located in a small apartment in New York in the sweltering heat, which is always filled with visitors. All the real-time action of the novel takes place in the apartment. The novel is in part about the women ¿ their differences, their different relationships with this charismatic ¿ but it¿s also about being an émigré. Ulitskaya describes the struggle, and sometimes the resistance, in becoming a fully-fledged immigrant. The novel deals with this massive subject with a light touch ¿ it¿s so plausible and poignant while being, always, wry and funny.

The Funeral Party

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