The last hiccup: a novel

✍ Scribed by Christopher Meades

• Publisher: ecw press
• Year: 2012;2013
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 170 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 1770902260

✦ Synopsis

A darkly funny, tragic, and ultimately heroic novel set in 1930s Russia, The Last Hiccup is the story of Vladimir, an eight-year-old boy stricken with a case of the hiccups -- that lasts over a decade.

Put through a series of extraordinary, often bizarre treatments by a famous physician, Sergei Namestikov, Vlad is spirited away from his rural home and doting mother to a hospital in Moscow. But Sergei's chief medical rival, the brilliant Alexander Afiniganov, believes that beneath Vladimir's mirror-less eyes lurks a pure, unbridled evil, and Vlad is removed from polite society.

Isolated from everyone and everything -- save his hiccups -- Vladimir grows up to find inner peace among the hiccupping. On his way back into the world he once knew, through a country now in the midst of war, he encounters many strange people and situations, and worries about what would happen to him should a cure for his now-comforting affliction be found.