Book description
DBC Pierre's second novel charts the unlikely meeting between East
and West that follows Ludmila Derev's appearance on a Russian brides
website. Determined to save her family from starvation in the face of
marauding Gnez troops, Ludmila's journey into the world and womanhood
is an odyssey of sour wit, even sourer vodka, and a Soviet tractor
probably running on goat's piss. Thousands of miles to the West, the
Heath twins are separated after 33 years conjoined at the abdomen.
Released for the first time from an institution rumoured to have been
founded for an illegitimate child of Charles II, they are suddenly
plunged into a round-the-clock world churning with opportunity, rowdy
with the chatter of freedom, democracy, self-empowerment and sex. A
wild and raucous picaresque dripping with flavours of British bacon
and nasty Russian vodka, Ludmila's Broken English is a tale of
tango-ing twins on a journey into the unknown. A ride so outrageously
improbable it just may happen, DBC Pierre's second novel confirms his
place in the ranks of today's most original storytellers.
DBC Pierre won the MAN Booker Prize, the Whitbread First Novel Award
and the Bolinger Everyman Wodehouse Award for Comic Writing in 2003.
Ludmila's Broken English is his second novel. He lives in County
Leitrim, Ireland.
