Jimi Hendrix live in Lviv: a novel
(Book)

New York : HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2024.

Book

First HarperVia edition.

416 pages ; 21 cm

English

9780063354548, 0063354543, 9780063354548, 0063354543

Translation of: Lvovskaia gastrol Dzhimi Khendriksa.

"Originally published as L'vovskaia Gastrol' Dzhimi Khendriksa in Ukraine in 2012 by Folio, Kharkiv"--Copyright page.

"Longlisted for the International Booker Prize, a Murakami-esque ode to the revered cultural capital of western Ukraine, filled with a charming cast of eccentrics who together make up the beating heart of the city. Strange, almost magical, things are afoot in Lviv. Seagulls circle overhead while the passing breeze carries a briny whiff, even though the coast is far away. A ragtag group of aging hippies gather around a mysterious grave in Lychakiv Cemetery. Among them are an ex-KGB officer and the old subversive he once spied upon. Soon, Captain Ryabtsev and Alik Olisevych band together to uncover the source of the city's "anomalies." Meanwhile, across Lviv, Taras, a cab driver, ferries kidney-stone patients over cobblestone streets in his ancient Opel Vectra. He's wooing Darka, a woman who works nights at a currency exchange. The young lovers don't know it, but their fate depends on the two lonely old men, relics of a bygone era, who will stop at nothing to save their city. Blending Shakespearean comedy with Andrey Kurkov's unique brand of black humor and vodka-fueled magic realism, Jimi Hendrix Live in Lviv, is a postcard from a more optimistic era. Populated by a delightful cast of oddballs, Kurkov's novel is an affectionate snapshot of a country finding itself and reclaiming its lost dreams twenty years after Soviet rule. Translated from the Russian by Reuben Woolley"--,Provided by publisher.

In English, translated from the Russian.

International Booker Prize Longlisted, 2023

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