The President's Last Love

Andrey Kurkov,author of The President's Last Love

Ukraine, has entered a new post-Soviet reality as a result of the break up of the Soviet Union. It remains, however, in the grip of a political system that veers from black comedy to arch tragedy. This is the underlying theme of a new novel by Andrey Kurkov. – "The President's Last Love". Using irony and surrealism as his tools Kurkov has crafted a novel that filters Ukraine's story through the Life and Loves of a fictional President Sergey Pavlovich Bunin. The results are hilarious.