The Last Hiccup: A Novel

By: Christopher Meades

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Synopsis: &“A strange and surprisingly touching novel about how people find good and evil where they look for them&” (Booklist). In 1930s Russia, an eight-year-old boy named Vladimir is suddenly stricken with a chronic case of the hiccups. He soon finds himself spirited away to a Moscow hospital by the famous physician Sergei Namestikov, who puts him through a series of extraordinary—and often bizarre—treatments in an effort to find a cure. Then Sergei&’s chief medical rival, the brilliant Alexander Afiniganov, determines that beneath Vladimir&’s blank eyes lurks a pure, unbridled evil—and takes steps to remove the child from polite society. Abandoned by everyone but his hiccups, Vladimir is about to embark on a journey that is funny, poignant, and surreal—and that takes a close look at the nature of good and evil—in this novel, a winner of the Canadian Authors Association Award for Fiction from the author of Hanna Who Fell From the Sky. &“A beautifully written novel, part folk tale, part parable.&” —Will Ferguson, author of Happiness