title: The Funeral Party: A Novel
author: Ludmila Ulitskaya
description: "Ludmila Ulitskaya arrives here not just as a shrewd novelist, but as a wise and evocative artist. . . . [THE FUNERAL PARTY is] quickly paced, quirkily observed and full of delicate surprises."<br />Carlin Romano in the Philadelphia Inquirer, 3/4/01<br /><br /><br /><i>From the Hardcover edition.</i>
zlib_text: Translation copyright © 1999 by Cathy Porter
  
  All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright
  Conventions. Published in the United States by Schocken Books, a division of
  Random House, Inc., New York. Distributed by Pantheon Books, a division of
  Random House, Inc., New York. Originally published in Russia as Veselye
  Pokhorony by Vagrius, Moscow, in 1999. Copyright © 1999 by Ludmila Ulitskaya.
  This translation first published in Great Britain by Victor Gollancz, an
  imprint of Orion Books Ltd., London, in 1999.
  
  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
  
  Ulitskaia, Liudmila.  
  [Veselye pokhorony. English]  
  The funeral party / Ludmila Ulitskaya; translated from the Russian by Cathy
  Porter.  
  p. cm.  
  eISBN: 978-0-307-77256-5  
  I. Porter, Cathy. II. Title.
  
  PG3489.2.L58 V4713 2001 891.73’5—dc21 00-059513
  
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  Contents
  
  [Cover](Ulit_978030