Overall rating: ★★
Vladimir is 26 years old working in a non for profit organization that helps immigrants with all sorts of situations. One day an old Russian man with a fan as a companion asks Vladimir to help him obtain the American citizenship. In exchange the old man would put Vladimir in contact with his son in Prava for them to do profitable business together.
Vladimir makes vague promises to the old man with the fan – it is not that easy to become an American. One day a series of events take place and Vladimir had to make the oath ceremony for American citizenship happen for the old man. And Vladimir goes to Prava…
The Groundhog runs the out of the grid business milieu in Prava, the Paris of Eastern Europe. He takes in his debutante, Vladimir and together come up with different ventures earning high profits and even more enemies. Until things went wrong…
It was difficult for me to connect with the story in the book. It seems that the writer’s original idea was a Russian/Easter European mafia novel. It was an incomplete attempt. There was no fluidity in the story, no connection among different events. I kept reading it with hopes of finding a fragment that would make me be more curious and interested in what would happen next – I found it briefly in chapter 32 of 36.
Originality: ★★
Beauty and use of language: ★
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