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The Thirty-One Legs of Vladimir Putin

P S Cottier N G Hartland

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Finlay Lloyd
26 October 2024
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"This may be the best book I've read this year" says author Jack Marx in his recent review. "The Thirty-One Legs of Vladimir Putin is so unusually brilliant, so unique in structure, so ludicrous, hilarious and ominous at once, that it's hard to believe it's a work of 21st-century Australian storytelling."


2024 WINNER OF THE 20/40 PUBLISHING PRIZE – FICTION.

The Thirty-One Legs of Vladimir Putin welcomes us to a world where absurdity and reality are increasingly indistinguishable and where questions of identity dominate public discourse.


31 ordinary people around the globe have one startling thing in common - each is a doppelganger for Vladimir Putin. Each is approached by the Russian playmakers with an offer too good to refuse - a generous monthly payment to do nothing but wait until called upon, sometimes for years...

This story spirits us off on a playful journey into the lives of a group of individuals whose physical attributes appear to matter more than who they may be. This comedic exploration of the role of the ordinary person in the exercise of power offers a striking reminder that, whoever we are, we are captured by the systems that govern us. 

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Imprint:   Finlay Lloyd
ISBN:   9780645927016
ISBN 10:   0645927015
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Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

P S Cottier has written eight books of poetry, a collection of stories and a nonfiction pamphlet about the wild-life near Parliament House. Her collection Utterly was shortlisted for the ACT Book of the Year. She has worked as a university tutor, a union organiser, a lawyer and a tea-lady. N G Hartland’s short stories have been published in Australia, the United States, and South Korea. ‘How to get to be a three-thousand-year-old mining AI’ was included in Robotic Ambitions: Tales of Mechanical Sentience. He has worked in criminology, social policy, and as a ministerial adviser.

  • WINNER OF THE 2024 20/40 PUBLISHING PRIZE – Fiction

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