President's Last Love
Andrey Kurkov
Moscow, January 2013. Sergey Pavlovich Bunin, the Ukrainian President, is celebrating the Fourth Centenary of the Romanov Dynasty. Rewind to the early '90s; the Soviet Union has crumbled, and a young Bunin is on the make. This work delivers an intricately woven and often hilarious political satire on life before and after the Iron Curtain.
Posted by drew_gummerson@abctales.com (46 weeks ago ) I buy Kurkov's books on the day they come out and read them as soon as I can after that.
This book spans 40 years of the Ukranian president's life. Three separate parts of his life are told in parallel stories. I've read elsewhere that this is confusing. It's not, not really.
So.
There is his early life and his relationship with a hermit who lives on an island. There is his middle life, working in government, dealing with a brother who is in care. There is his life as president shortly after suffering a heart attack.
Life is stranger than fiction. No doubt. The Ukraine is currently on its 8th election in 2 years? Russians are being poisoned with nuclear material on UK soil.
So.
Is the president receiving someone else's heart fitted with a special device (I won't reveal what?), being held to ransom by an electric mogul, performing covert operations for the Russians so preposterous?
Probably not.
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