{"product_id":"jimi-hendrix-live-in-lviv","title":"Jimi Hendrix Live In Lviv","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Both a pleasure and a testament to life in Ukraine, before\" \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Ukraine''s greatest living novelist\" \u003ci\u003eNew European\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003c\/i\u003eA Ukrainian Murakami\" \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA love letter to the beautiful city of Lviv, by the author of \u003ci\u003eDeath and the Penguin \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eGrey Bees.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eStrange things are afoot in the cosmopolitan city of Lviv, western Ukraine. Seagulls are circling and the air smells salty, though Lviv is a long way from the sea . . .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e A ragtag group gathers round a mysterious grave in Lychakiv Cemetery - among them an ex-KGB officer and an ageing hippy he used to spy on. Before long, Captain Ryabtsev and Alik Olisevych are teaming up to discover the source of the \"anomalies\".\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMeanwhile, Taras ­- who makes a living driving kidney-stone patients over cobblestones in his ancient Opel Vectra - is courting Darka, who works nights at a bureau de change despite being allergic to money.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe young lovers don''t know it, but their fate depends on two lonely old men, relics of another era, who will stop at nothing to save their city.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Shot through with Kurkov''s unique brand of black humour and vodka-fuelled magic realism, \u003ci\u003eJimi Hendrix Live in Lviv \u003c\/i\u003eis an affectionate portrait one the world''s most intriguing cities.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTranslated from the Russian by Reuben Woolley\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57306069533054,"sku":"NW9781529427837","price":9.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9781529427837.jpg?v=1778516959","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/jimi-hendrix-live-in-lviv","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}