A Displaced Person: The Later Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin Contributor(s): Voinovich, Vladimir (Author), Bromfield, Andrew (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0810126621 ISBN-13: 9780810126626 Publisher: Northwestern University Press OUR PRICE: $19.76 Product Type: Paperback Published: October 2012 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Fiction |
Dewey: 891.734 |
LCCN: 2012020231 |
Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6" W x 8.9" (0.80 lbs) 248 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: In A Displaced Person--the third book in a trilogy that began with the modern classic The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin and continued with Pretender to the Throne--author Vladimir Voinovich turns his satirical eye to the difficult last days of the Soviet Communism he so lampooned. Often absurd, A Displaced Person follows a series of random events that brings Chonkin to the United States, where he becomes a farmer and, eventually, a member of a congressional delegation sent to the Soviet Union in 1989, during perestroika, to discuss agriculture with the Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. A Displaced Person carries on the rich Russian tradition of an essentially comic response to the absurdities inherent in totalitarian regimes. |