{"product_id":"limonov-book-emmanuel-carrere-9780374192013","title":"Limonov","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNamed a Best Book of the Year by \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian \u003c\/i\u003e(London) \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eA thrilling page-turner that also happens to be the biography of one of Russia's most controversial figures\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis is how Emmanuel Carr re, the magnetic journalist, novelist, filmmaker, and chameleon, describes his subject: Limonov is not a fictional character. There. I know him. He has been a young punk in Ukraine, the idol of the Soviet underground; a bum, then a multimillionaire's butler in Manhattan; a fashionable writer in Paris; a lost soldier in the Balkans; and now, in the fantastic shambles of postcommunism, the elderly but charismatic leader of a party of young desperadoes. He sees himself as a hero; you might call him a scumbag: I suspend my judgment on the matter. It's a dangerous life, an ambiguous life: a real adventure novel. It is also, I believe, a life that says something. Not just about him, Limonov, not just about Russia, but about all our history since the end of the Second World War. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSo Eduard Limonov isn't fictional-but he might as well be. This pseudobiography isn't a novel, but it reads like one: from Limonov's grim childhood to his desperate, comical, ultimately successful attempts to gain the respect of Russia's literary intellectual elite; to his immigration to New York, then to Paris; to his return to the motherland. \u003ci\u003eLimonov\u003c\/i\u003e could be read as a charming picaresque. But it could also be read as a troubling counternarrative of the second half of the twentieth century, one that reveals a violence, an anarchy, a brutality, that the stories we tell ourselves about progress tend to conceal.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50038374564113,"sku":"CIN0374192014VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50808758534417,"sku":"GOR012068407","price":8.4,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50857655599377,"sku":"GOR012052195","price":10.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51415737303313,"sku":"CIN0374192014G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0374192014.jpg?v=1751038917","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/products\/limonov-book-emmanuel-carrere-9780374192013","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}