Limonov

“The amazing, improbable life of [the] Ukrainian writer, adventurer and would-be revolutionary . . . Carrère has turned it into an equally spectacular book.” —Michael Dirda, The Washington Post This is how Emmanuel Carrère, the magnetic journalist, novelist, filmmaker, and chameleon, describes his subject: “Limonov is not a fictional character. There. I know him. He has been a young punk in Ukraine, the idol of the Soviet underground; a bum, then a multimillionaire’s butler in Man