Jimi Hendrix Live in Lviv with Andrey Kurkov
Sat 07 Oct 2023
7:30pm at Elwin Room, Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institute, 16-18 Queen Square, Bath, BA1 2HN
All tickets include a £2 donation to the Ukraine Humanitarian Appeal, author interview, Q&A and signing.
Other ways to book:
Email books@mrbsemporium.com, call 01225 331155 or pop into the shop at 14-15 John Street, Bath. BA1 2JL.
We are hugely excited to welcome the great Ukrainian author Andrey Kurkov back to Bath to discuss his new novel, Jimi Hendrix Live in Lviv.
Andrey’s books are the stuff of legend within the walls of Mr B’s – his brilliant Death and the Penguin has been resident on our Hall of Fame for a decade, and many of his other novels have found their way into customers’ hands in their droves. Now he is back with Jimi Hendrix Live in Lviv, both a love letter to the beautiful city of Lviv, and a novel of spies, hippies and strange goings-on in this intriguing city, all shot through with Andrey’s trademark black humour.
All tickets will include a £2 donation to the Ukraine Humanitarian Appeal.
About the Book:
Strange things are afoot in the cosmopolitan city of Lviv, western Ukraine. Seagulls are circling and the air smells salty, though Lviv is a long way from the sea…
A ragtag group gathers round a mysterious grave in Lychakiv Cemetery – among them an ex-KGB officer and an ageing hippy he used to spy on.
Before long, Captain Ryabtsev and Alik Olisevych are teaming up to discover the source of the “anomalies”. Meanwhile, Taras – who makes a living driving kidney-stone patients over cobblestones in his ancient Opel Vectra – is courting Darka, who works nights at a bureau de change despite being allergic to money. The young lovers don’t know it, but their fate depends on two lonely old men, relics of another era, who will stop at nothing to save their city.
“Ukraine’s greatest living novelist” — New European
“Kurkov draws us with deceptive ease into a dense complex world full of wonderful characters” — Michael Palin