- Paperback: 320 pages
- Publisher: Flamingo (23 Jan 1997)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0002255626
- ISBN-13: 978-0002255622
- Product Dimensions: 20.8 x 13.2 x 2.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,064,025 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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‘Toxic, merciless satire… I don’t expect to read a funnier or more profound book this year’
TIME OUT
‘Womack’s neon prose is enough to light up a world gone dark and mad’
THE TIMES
‘Dark, brilliant and deeply worrying’
ESQUIRE
‘His aim is utterly merciless… Womack knows his way around the compost of violence and death’
VANITY FAIR
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Murder, mafia and the scramble for money in the new Russia. A brilliantly received satire – achingly funny, deeply disturbing.
‘We can prove Kennedy shot himself – as long as we’re paid in advance.’… In the unfettered freedom of Russia’s new-found venture-capital frenzy, Max Borodin can organize anything – if the readies are ready. That’s why he’s Moscow’s most successful businessman. But Max’s life has its downside: his wife, Tanya, nags him, his mistress, Sonya, exhausts him; and his brother Evgeny is a master at business fiascos. Then there are always the country’s friendly mafia, keen to lend a helping hand with the profits of Max’s Universal Manufacturing Company – producer of documents, historical and otherwise, to suit every conceivable occasion.
Let’s Put the Future Behind Us is the wittiest job of fictional surgery on New Russia since its iron curtain was amputated.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Russian gangsters, extremist nationalists and layabouts bring you a hilarious story which is not exactly great Literature but worth a read for the near-farcical closing scenes.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
...Not Cyberpunk like his usual stuff, its set bang up to date in post Glastnost Russia. Nonetheless, fantastic characters, a wealth of information on the life of a fixer, a 'Mr.Johnson' type who smooths the wheels of his Moscow-mafia controlled 'business'. A dark undercurrent of threatened yet rarely revealed stylish violence threads through the read, keeping you on the edge. At the risk of sounding trite, "I couldn't put it down! ". Now, where are those Garibaldis..
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I lived in Moscow for eighteen months and, believe me, this is book is spot on! Through the daily dealings of his delightfully idiosyncratic characters, Womack captures perfectly the crazy world of modern Russia and her people.
Sex, drugs, violence, barking mad ultra-nationalists, radioactive Faberge eggs.....sit back with a glass of chilled vodka and enjoy!
**Mind you, I think I read a different book to the one Amazon describes in the synopsis at the top. The second sentence applies, but I don't remember "the Russian Elvis" popping up anywhere. Shame!
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