The funeral party - Ludmila Ulitskaya

Story of dying Alik, a charismatic artist, which features his wife and two ex-lovers as they attend his sick bed during the last few days of his life.
Located in a small apartment in New York in the sweltering heat, which is always filled with visitors. All the real-time action of the novel takes place in the apartment. The novel is in part about the women ? their differences, their different relationships with this charismatic ? but it?s also about being an ?migr?. Ulitskaya describes the struggle, and sometimes the resistance, in becoming a fully-fledged immigrant.
The novel deals with this massive subject with a light touch ? it?s so plausible and poignant while being, always, wry and funny.