- Paperback: 208 pages
- Publisher: Coptic (13 Aug 2010)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0955877113
- ISBN-13: 978-0955877117
- Product Dimensions: 1.3 x 2 x 0.1 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
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Product Description
A novel set in the frenetic gold rush of post-communist Russia before its all-too brief taste of raw capitalism collapses in the great economic crash of 1998. The brilliant but volatile Godunev, a former Moscow kiosk worker, returns from New York and Miami hoping to make a quick fortune while the country's assets are still up for grabs. Using his hipster credentials to infiltrate Moscow's aspirational emerging super-rich "biznismen" scene, he gets caught up in machinations to privatize the Kremlin, and eventually finds himself out of his depths in a Russia of oligarchs, gangsters, models and prostitutes that is hurtling towards its own demise. But amidst the violence, callousness and audacity of the time, Gudonev also reflects many of his countrymen's sentiments: the passion of relationships; the extremities of life; a re-assertion of Russian culture; and a pervasive love-hate relationship with the US and the West.
About the Author
Vijai Maheshwari is an Indian-American writer who has lived in post-Communist Eastern Europe since the early 1990s. He started a writers' workshop in Prague, was editor-in-chief of Russian Playboy, a correspondent for Britain's Financial Times and Moscow's infamous alternative paper, the eXile. He is the founder and editor of B-East, Eastern Europe's provocative lifestyles and fashion glossy, and now lives in Kiev. Before arriving in Eastern Europe, he studied Physics under iconic scientist and Nobel laureate Richard Feynman.
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Format:Paperback
Just ordered my copy.
And here was me thinking Vijay was conjured up from Ames's warped mind. But does this mean the Shah is also featured?
Going by Vijay's previous 'literary' works I would expect this to be explosive!
And here was me thinking Vijay was conjured up from Ames's warped mind. But does this mean the Shah is also featured?
Going by Vijay's previous 'literary' works I would expect this to be explosive!
Format:Paperback
I will just say, if the book is half as good as the story i have heard from Vijai Maheshwari about russia in this time, then the book is a 5 star.
I have spent 2 or 3 year in eastern europe hanging out and helping on BEAST magazine, so i know Vj well, i am yet to receive my copy of the book, but am sure it will be a great read.
I have spent 2 or 3 year in eastern europe hanging out and helping on BEAST magazine, so i know Vj well, i am yet to receive my copy of the book, but am sure it will be a great read.
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26 Oct 2011
Format:Paperback
good fast paced action from this new writer - made me want to be there in Russia in that time!
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