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When Chonkin is mistaken for Prince Golitsyn, Hitler, Himmler, Stalin, and Beria try to have him captured, each side needing him for their political machinations, but Chonkin, the wise fool, eludes them in this burlesque of institutionalized fear and absurdity
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This hilarious novel follows the continuing adventures of the simple peasant Ivan Chonkin, who has been arrested as a traitor to the motherland after spending World War II happily tending a garden. Lacking evidence against him, the bumbling bureaucrats base their case on a rumor in his home village that he is the illegitimate son of a prince. The comic case of mistaken identity escalates as they accuse this unlikely prince of working in league with Hitler to restore the monarchy. In this sequel to The Extraordinary Life and Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin, Voinovich ridicules everything that was sacred in the Soviet Union - including the army, the justice system, the press, and Stalin - in a refreshing combination of dissident conscience and universal humor.
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Original Language: Russian
Original Language: Russian
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- PublisherFarrar Straus & Giroux
- Publication date1981
- ISBN 10 0374237158
- ISBN 13 9780374237158
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages366
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