It is a sweltering August in Aberystwyth. A man wearing a Soviet museum curator's uniform walks into Louie Knight's office and spins a wild and impossible tale of love, death, madness and betrayal. Sure, Louie had heard about Hughesovka, the legendary replica of Aberystwyth built in the Ukraine by some crazy nineteenth-century czar. But he hadn't believed that it really existed until he met Uncle Vanya. Now the old man's story catapults him into the neon-drenched wilderness of Aberystwyth Prom in search of a girl who mysteriously disappeared thirty years ago. Soon Louie finds his fate depending on two most unlikely talismans - -a ticket to Hughesovka and a Russian cosmonaut's sock.
- ISBN10 1408801027
- ISBN13 9781408801024
- Publish Date 5 April 2010 (first published 4 May 2009)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Edition UK ed.
- Format Paperback
- Pages 288
- Language English
- URL http://bloomsbury.com/Trade/