PublishedPenguin, October 2012 |
ISBN9780241953754 |
FormatSoftcover, 368 pages |
Dimensions19.8cm × 12.9cm |
Welcome to Rome. It's the summer of 1978, and the Krasnansky family are passing through. Alongside thousands of other Soviet refugees they await passage to a new home in the West. But escaping Communism is not so easy (especially when some of the Krasnansky insist on bringing it with them), and it's harder still when their sponsor in the USA lets them down and they find that they're no longer passing through at all.
On the contrary, they're stuck. Welcome, then, to a tragic yet comic tale of reckless brothers and long-suffering sisters, ailing parents and innocent children, of love affairs and criminal liaisons, of wonderfully troubled family and a perpetually wandering people, and their epic search for a home . . . 'Colourful, sharply funny and deeply moving.' Financial Times 'A proper novel that bulges and pulses and thrums with life. I ended up loving it. The principal tone is wry - mainly comedic, sometimes melancholic, occasionally tragic, ironical, playful, charming. A rich and occasionally brilliant novel.' Observer 'Alternately comic, sharp and sombre. It's impossible not to be caught up in the tangled web of its unforgettable case.' Daily Mail 'Wonderfully uplifting' The Times
