Pretender to Throne

by Vladimir Voinovich

Book Overview

This hilarious novel follows the continuing adventures of the simple peasant Ivan Chonkin, who has been arrested as a traitor to the motherland after spending World War II happily tending a garden. Lacking evidence against him, the bumbling bureaucrats base their case on a rumor in his home village that he is the illegitimate son of a prince. The comic case of mistaken identity escalates as they accuse this unlikely prince of working in league with...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374237158
• ISBN13: 9780374237158
• Release Date: January 1981
• Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
• Length: 357 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.