Nocturnal butterflies of the Russian Empire
Subtitle: a novel
By: José Manuel Prieto ; translated from the Spanish by Carol and Thomas Christensen
Contributors: Christensen, Carol, 1947-; Christensen, Thomas, 1948-
Edition: 1st ed
Publisher: Grove Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 322
Subjects: Smugglers -- Fiction; Russia -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction
Work titles: Livadia.
Description: A brilliant novel of love, international smuggling, and the art of letter writing is offered by one of Latin America's promising young literary talents. J. lives on the fringes of Eastern Europe, a smuggler fencing the flotsam of communism's collapse. Offered a commission to illegally trap a rare Russian butterfly, he decides to use it as an opportunity to smuggle V., his Russian lover, back into her homeland.