false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178783862m/837341.jpg 837341 6 August 1991. In a sweltering New York City apartment, a group of Russian émigrés gathers round the deathbed of an artist named Alik, a charismatic character beloved by them all, especially the women who take turns nursing him as he fades from this world. Their reminiscences of the dying man and of their lives in Russia are punctuated by debates and squabbles: Whom did Alik love most? Should he be baptized before he dies, as his alcoholic wife, Nina, desperately wishes, or be reconciled to the faith of his birth by a rabbi who happens to be on hand? And what will be the meaning for them of the Yeltsin putsch, which is happening across the world in their long-lost Moscow but also right before their eyes on CNN? <br><br>This marvelous group of individuals inhabits the first novel by Ludmila Ulitskaya to be published in English, a book that was shortlisted for the Russian Booker Prize and has been praised wherever translated editions have appeared. Simultaneously funny and sad, lyrical in its Russian sorrow and devastatingly keen in its observation of character, <i>The Funeral Party</i> introduces to our shores a wonderful writer who captures, wryly and tenderly, our complex thoughts and emotions confronting life and death, love and loss, homeland and exile. 1265423 2000 The Funeral Party: A Novel total:72|5:21|4:22|3:26|2:2|1:1| 72 276 118 10 5 0 false false Fri Nov 06 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Nov 06 19:09:11 -0800 2009 Fri Nov 06 19:13:56 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Jun 13 19:39:49 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 13 19:39:49 -0700 2009 http://www.bostonbibliophile.com/2009/03...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Aug 26 08:04:20 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 16 15:33:22 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 26 08:04:20 -0700 2009 4 1 false false Thu Feb 05 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 29 09:20:31 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 05 11:03:53 -0800 2009 5 0 false true Sat Nov 15 17:51:53 -0800 2008 Sat Nov 15 17:57:33 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 24 15:10:57 -0700 2008 Sun Aug 09 17:33:54 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Apr 08 16:23:36 -0700 2008 Mon Jul 06 17:01:18 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Fri Feb 01 12:31:42 -0800 2008 Fri Feb 01 12:33:08 -0800 2008 3 0 false false Sat Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Nov 19 07:54:41 -0800 2008 Wed Nov 19 07:56:03 -0800 2008 3 0 false false Fri Feb 27 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Oct 17 10:13:08 -0700 2008 Fri Feb 27 16:08:44 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Fri Nov 06 21:01:13 -0800 2009 Fri Nov 06 21:01:13 -0800 2009 3 0 false false Wed Oct 14 06:13:58 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 14 06:13:58 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Tue Oct 06 11:23:06 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 06 11:23:06 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Mon Oct 05 14:56:31 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 05 14:56:31 -0700 2009 2 0 false false Sat Oct 03 12:24:14 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 03 12:24:14 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sun Sep 27 01:15:06 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 27 01:15:06 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Mon Sep 14 15:03:26 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 14 15:03:26 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Sat Sep 12 12:52:19 -0700 2009 Sat Sep 12 12:52:19 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Fri Sep 11 12:04:05 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 11 12:04:05 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Thu Sep 10 19:16:48 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 10 19:16:48 -0700 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=837341