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'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.' (Publisher's blurb)
Notes
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Dedication: To the good people of Chambarak, Hayastan.
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Epigraph: For one of us was born a twin
And not a soul knew which. (H. S. Leigh)
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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East-West Collision Course
2006
single work
review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 4 - 5 March 2006; (p. 4)
— Review of Ludmila's Broken English 2006 single work novel -
Broken Promise
2006
single work
review
— Appears in: The Irish Times , 4 March 2006; (p. 13)
— Review of Ludmila's Broken English 2006 single work novel -
Paint Me Geese in the Sky
2006
single work
review
— Appears in: The Guardian , 4 March 2006; (p. 16)
— Review of Ludmila's Broken English 2006 single work novel -
Prickly Pierre Let Down by His Prose
2006
single work
review
— Appears in: The Observer , 26 February 2006; (p. 22)
— Review of Ludmila's Broken English 2006 single work novel -
Visionary, Electric - and Wrong
2006
single work
review
— Appears in: Independent on Sunday , 26 February 2006; (p. 25)
— Review of Ludmila's Broken English 2006 single work novel
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Two Twists to the Tale
2006
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 25-26 February 2006; (p. 19)
— Review of Ludmila's Broken English 2006 single work novel -
Daredevil Pierre Crashes to Earth in Round Two
2006
single work
review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 4 March 2006; (p. 13)
— Review of Ludmila's Broken English 2006 single work novel -
Ludmila and the Blasted Heaths
2006
single work
review
— Appears in: The Age , 4 March 2006; (p. 27)
— Review of Ludmila's Broken English 2006 single work novel -
Subversive Message from the Underworld
2006
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 4-5 March 2006; (p. 14-15)
— Review of Ludmila's Broken English 2006 single work novel -
Prose and Cons
2006
single work
review
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 21 March vol. 124 no. 6512 2006; (p. 68-69)
— Review of Ludmila's Broken English 2006 single work novel -
Digging the Dirty
2006
single work
biography
— Appears in: The Age , 25 February 2006; (p. 10) The Guardian , 11 February 2006; (p. 26) -
Bastard of a Life
2006
single work
column
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 25 February 2006; (p. 11) -
Dirty But Clean
Clean Break
2006
single work
criticism
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 4 - 5 March 2006; (p. 28-32) -
No Shortage of Stories for This Booker Prize Winner
2006
single work
column
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 29 March 2006; (p. 3) -
Made to Be Broken
2006
single work
criticism
— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 2 April 2006; (p. 16)
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cFormer Soviet Union,cEastern Europe, Europe,