The Funeral Party

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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