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DBC Pierre

Introduced by Canberra Times' Literary Editor, Gia Metherell, Pierre will discuss his 2003 Booker Prize Winning novel, Vernon God Little and his latest foray into fiction, Ludmila's Broken English, an outrageously raucous world of online Russian brides, conjoined twins, sex and vodka.

Ludmila's Broken English DBC Pierres second novel charts the unlikely meeting between East and West that follows Ludmila Derevs appearance on a Russian brides website. Determined to save her family from starvation in the face of marauding Gnez troops, Ludmilas journey into the world and womanhood is an odyssey of sour wit, even sourer vodka, and a Soviet tractor probably running on goats piss.

Thousands of miles to the West, the Heath twins are separated after thirty-three years conjoined at the abdomen. Released for the first time from an institution rumoured to have been founded for an illegitimate child of Charles II, they are suddenly plunged into a round-the-clock world churning with opportunity, rowdy with the chatter of freedom, democracy, self-empowerment and sex.

A wild picaresque dripping with flavours of British bacon and nasty Russian vodka, Ludmilas Broken English is a tale of tangoing twins on a journey into the unknown. A ride so improbable it just may happen, DBC Pierres second novel confirms his place in the ranks of todays most original storytellers.

About The Author:
DBC Pierre was born in Reynella, South Australia. He was raised in Mexico between the ages of seven and twenty-three, although he has also travelled extensively. DBC Pierre has worked as a designer and cartoonist, and currently lives in Ireland. Vernon God Little, his first novel, won the 2003 Bollinger Everyman Woodhouse Award, the Whitbread Prize for Best First Novel, and the 2003 Man Booker Prize. Ludmila's Broken English is his second novel.

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Ludmila's Broken English

Tuesday 28 March 2006 

DBC Pierre s second novel charts the unlikely meeting between East and West that follows Ludmila Derev s appearance on a Russian brides website. Determined to save her family from starvation in the face of marauding Gnez troops, Ludmila s journey into the world and womanhood is an odyssey of sour wit, even sourer vodka, and a Soviet tractor probably running on goat's piss.