The Mushroom-Picker

The art of cooking is used in this far-fetched satire as a metaphor for what is good and bad about Soviet and British society. Zinik has a razor-sharp wit, but because everythingpolitics, lovemaking, literatureis related to cooking, the novel is much too contrived, often clumsily executed. Kostya, a hulking Soviet factory guard, emigrates to the U.K. with his British wife Clea, a pathetic left-winger who he nicknames "Nuclea" for her militant pacifist views. Their l... >Voir plus