LUDMILA'S BROKEN ENGLISH
Description
'It does conjoined twins, and terrorism, and the sad, post-war limbo of the formerly Soviet Caucasus; it does sex and the absence of sex; it touches briefly on music and silence and short bursts of structurally incomprehensible violence. And it is great, and rollicking! Zoe Williams, Guardian. Determined to save her family from starvation in the face of marauding Gnez troops, Ludmila Derev appears on a website for Russian brides. Thousands of miles to the west, the Heath twins are separated after spending thirty-three years conjoined at the abdomen and are suddenly plunged into a world churning with opportunity, self-empowerment and sex. Charting this unlikely meeting between East and West, Ludmila's Broken English is a wild, raucous and entirely original picaresque dripping with the flavours of British bacon and Russian vodka.