WE CAN PROVE KENNEDY SHOT HIMSELF – AS LONG AS WE’RE PAID IN ADVANCE In the unfettered freedom of Russia’s new found venture capital frenzy, Max Borodin can organise anything – so long as the readies are ready. That’s why he’s Moscow’s most successful businessman. But Max’s life has its downside: his wife, Tanya, nags him, his mistress, Sonya, exhausts him; his brother Evgeny needs him – to help extricate him from yet another shady business fiasco. Then there are always the country’s friendly mafia, keen to lend a helping hand with the profits of Max’s Universal Manufacturing Company – producer of documents, historical and otherwise, to suit every conceivable occasion. Satire rarely comes more sulphuric than this. 'Let’s Put the Future Behind Us' is the wittiest job of fictional surgery on New Russia since it iron curtain was amputated. Extraordinary … fierce and fiery prose … If it’s material for a novel you’re looking for, Russia is where it’s atSUNDAY TELEGRAPH Womack’s neon prose is enough to light up a world gone dark and madTHE TIMES I don’t expect to read a funnier, more profound book this year, and you shouldn’t eitherTIME OUT Bitter, vitriolically funny satire … a chilling peal of laughter in the darkGLASGOW HERALD Womack, simply the coolest writer of his generationNORTHERN ECHO… (more) |
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