The Senility of Vladimir P

Hardcover | 3 March 2016

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As provocative and spiky as Look Who's Back, Michael Honig's The Senility of Vladimir P is a strangely moving, blackly funny and frankly brilliant calling to account of Vladimir Putin, of power and greed, and of our own moral complicity.

Set 20-odd years from now, this is the story of a senile Vladimir Putin, ensconced and forgotten in his dacha, served by a small coterie of house staff. His nurse, charged with round- the-clock care, is blissfully unaware that his colleagues are using their various positions to skim money, in extraordinarily creative ways, from the top of their employer's seemingly inexhaustible riches. But when a family tragedy means that the nurse suddenly needs to find kopecs fast, the dacha's chef lets him in on the secret world of backhanders and bribes going on around him. Yet nurses are incorruptible; signees to the Hippocratic Oath. He wouldn't steal from his ailing patient. Would he..?

Industry Reviews

Sharp, spare, entertaining... Savour the quips and enjoy the show -- Mary Dejevsky * Independent *
Amid its screwball rage this very funny book is also an unexpectedly touching one -- AD Miller * Spectator *
A scathing satire... The Senility of Vladimir P is a clear attack on the corruption and greed of Putin's Russia and a sharp reminder of how authoritarian rule can infect a generation -- Lucy Popescu * Independent *
Blackly comic... A novel about an innocent who learns too late that when a country goes to the dogs, so, all too often, do its people * Daily Mail *
An exciting tale of how even the best men can face temptation * Irish Examiner *
A story worth telling. Many of the events described are happening now and often not very far away * Guardian *

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