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From Publishers Weekly
Starred Review. Pierre’s debut， Vernon God Little， won the Man Booker and the Whitbread prizes in 2003; the book narrated a grim and bizarre Columbine-like aftermath in smalltown Texas. Here， Pierre widens his scope in comparing and combining the sordid lives of formerly conjoined twins in the U.K. with that of a seductress from the war-torn Caucasus. The author， whose pen name initials stand for ?Dirty But Clean，? begins by highlighting the adult Heath twins’ childish antics in a terror-threatened London. Upon their medical separation as adults (effected in a prologue; they were conjoined at the abdomen) and release from a private institution， Blair， intrepid and sexually ripe， and Bunny， a feeble asexual， enter the real world and must learn to rely on one another in new ways. Meanwhile， miles away in Ubilisk-Kuzhniskia， the beautiful， sarcastic Ludmila Derev has accidentally killed her incestuous grandfather， the family’s sole breadwinner， and must save her family from starvation. Her sharp tongue pulls her into a Russian brides Internet scam， throwing her in the path of the traveling Heath brothers. With a mix of offbeat composition and intoxicating insight， Pierre’s dystopian work is in a genus all its own; he succeeds in shocking his audience with this maddeningly entertaining encore. (May 8)
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