# The Funeral Party

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- Authors: [Ludmila Evgenyevna Ulitskaya](https://www.bookquiver.com/ludmila-evgenyevna-ulitskaya)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2015-08-20

## Description

'Dazzling . . . [An] engrossing study of a vivacious personality slipping away' THE TIMES 'Rich in detail, elusive in meaning, light in touch' MOSCOW TIMES In a small apartment in New York, in the sweltering mid-summer heat, a group of Russian émigrés gather around the sickbed of an artist named Alik. Nina, his wife, is desperate for Alik to be baptised; Irina, his ex-lover, a circus acrobat turned lawyer, quietly pays the bills; elderly Maria dispenses magical herbs; and Maika, Irina's fifteen-year-old daughter, prepares to lose the only man to make her laugh. As the visitors fuss and reminisce over Alik, in a corner of the crowded room the television shows the uprising outside the White House in Moscow and the tanks closing in on the city . . .

## Editions

### The Funeral Party

- Publisher: w_n
- ISBN: 978-14-7460-205-1
- Pages: 1
- Published: 2015-08-20
- Language: en_GB

### The Funeral Party

- Publisher: w_n
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-14-7460-206-8
- Published: 2015-08-20
- Language: en_GB

### The Funeral Party

- Publisher: schocken
- ISBN: 978-08-0521-132-0
- Pages: 160
- Published: 2002-01-15
- Language: en_US