Madonna from Russia
Contributors: Thomas Moore (Translator)
Publisher: Dufour Editions
Published: November 15, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 219
ISBN-13: 9780720612554
Subjects: Modern fiction; Literary; Fiction; Fiction - General; 20th century; Communism; Prostitutes; Russia (Federation); Saint Petersburg; Women authors, Russian
Description: "Lily was a beautiful young prostitute recruited by the Bolsheviks to service the Communist elite. As a result of a fortuitous marriage to Andrei Bourbon, famous poet, Futurist and artistic associate of Malevich and Mayakovsky, her own verse is delivered to the official Communist newspapers, together with an entirely invented revolutionary biography. Before long, she is made poet laureate and feted as an idealized symbol of the Soviet era, while Andrei, after being incarcerated in a mental hospital by Lily, disappears in the purges.".

"After the collapse of several marriages - and the Soviet Union - she leaves Russia for the United States. This is where we meet her, still striking-looking and engaged to a naive American, starting out again at the age of ninety-six. Following further bizarre and picaresque adventures, she reaches for her greatest honour yet: to be 'Queen Lily the First' of the newly created island state of Grande Bravo."--BOOK JACKET.