{"product_id":"funeral-party","title":"Funeral Party","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eFuneral Party\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eLudmila Ulitskaya\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780805211320\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eSchocken\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2002\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eReprint\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eClean, unmarked copy with some edge wear. Good binding. Dust jacket included if issued with one. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003eAugust 1991. In a sweltering New York City apartment, a group of Russian émigrés gathers round the deathbed of an artist named Alik, a charismatic character beloved by them all, especially the women who take turns nursing him as he fades from this world. Their reminiscences of the dying man and of their lives in Russia are punctuated by debates and squabbles: Whom did Alik love most? Should he be baptized before he dies, as his alcoholic wife, Nina, desperately wishes, or be reconciled to the faith of his birth by a rabbi who happens to be on hand? And what will be the meaning for them of the Yeltsin putsch, which is happening across the world in their long-lost Moscow but also right before their eyes on CNN? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis marvelous group of individuals inhabits the first novel by Ludmila Ulitskaya to be published in English, a book that was shortlisted for the Russian Booker Prize and has been praised wherever translated editions have appeared. Simultaneously funny and sad, lyrical in its Russian sorrow and devastatingly keen in its observation of character, \u003ci\u003eThe Funeral Party\u003c\/i\u003e introduces to our shores a wonderful writer who captures, wryly and tenderly, our complex thoughts and emotions confronting life and death, love and loss, homeland and exile.\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Schocken","offers":[{"title":"Funeral Party | Ludmila Ulitskaya | Paperback | 9780805211320 | Used: Very Good | Fiction 1516427","offer_id":48753917329560,"sku":"1516427","price":7.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/51pIZE9bVgL.jpg?v=1774068016","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/funeral-party","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}