{"product_id":"jimi-hendrix-live-in-lviv","title":"Jimi Hendrix Live in Lviv: Longlisted for the International Booker Prize 2023 (","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Ukraine's greatest living novelist\" \u003ci\u003eNew European\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"\u003c\/i\u003eA Ukrainian Murakami\" \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cb\u003eA hugely entertaining romp through the beautiful city of Lviv, by the author of \u003ci\u003eDeath and the Penguin \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eGrey Bees\u003c\/i\u003e, now reporting widely on the Russian invasion of Ukraine, his home country.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cbr\u003e\r\nStrange things are happening in the cosmopolitan town of Lviv, western Ukraine. Seagulls are circling and the air smells salty, though Lviv is a long way from the sea . . .\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cbr\u003e\r\nA group of ageing hippies meets at the cemetery in the middle of the night, gathered around a mysterious grave. Among them the ex-KGB officer who means to apologise to all those he spied on; the woman who is allergic to banknotes, and yet works at the money exchange; and Taras, who makes a living driving at top speed over cobblestones in his ancient Opel Vectra, curing paying passengers of their kidney stones.\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cbr\u003e\r\nKurkov's novels are often populated by lonely people going through difficult times, and by his own brand of black humour combined with magic realism (occasionally vodka-fuelled). All those ingredients are found in Jimi Hendrix Live in Lviv.\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cb\u003eTranslated from the Russian by Reuben Woolley\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n","brand":"Quercus Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42973847060658,"sku":"9781529430332","price":355.01,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/9191\/8002\/products\/391804_6418e866529d50.22771591_9781529430332.jpg?v=1681298755","url":"https:\/\/www.wordsworth.co.za\/products\/jimi-hendrix-live-in-lviv","provider":"Wordsworth Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}