★From the young prize-winning writer comes this funny, blunt and audaciously unsentimental account of a young single father’s misadventures.

　　The story begins in hospital, as Vladimir Lorinkov, the narrator and protagonist, bon vivant and womanizer, successful journalist and prizewinning writer, stands watching his wife die while he holds his bawling newborn son in his arms. Before she dies, Vladimir’s wife names the son (Matthew) and makes her husband promise to take a good care of him. So he will, no matter what it takes. It is no surprise that the promise proves hard to keep.

　　Vladimir is forced to battle with his son’s month-long dysbacteriosis, to change his own blithe life style, and even his job - he becomes an interpreter of dreams, as this allows him to work from home. As Vladimir has to face the trials of child-rearing - sometimes dramatic, sometimes absurd, and often funny - he discovers that he does not simply accept the situation, but starts to take pride in his little Matthew and, ultimately, to love him. It is at this moment, though, that a final challenge emerges: the young widower has to struggle to prove his right to fatherhood against a successful
and influential businessman, who appears at the door of his house claiming to be his wife’s lover, and Matthew’s real father!

　　Fresh, insightful, hilarious and unsettling, Lorchenkov’s Dump-Truck is certainly closer to Nick Hornby’s About a Boy than to a single father’s guide to parenting.

Vladimir Lorchenkov

　　Vladimir Lorchenkov was born in 1979. A journalist and and prose writer, he was shortlisted and won numerous literary prizes, including Debut Literary Prize and the Russian Literary Prize (for fiction written in Russian by authors living outside Russia). Vladimir Lorchenkov is the author of fourteen published books. Lorchenkov recently moved with his family to Canada.
Prizes:
　　Longlisted for Prix Medicis Etranger 2014!
　　Shortlisted for the National Bestseller Prize 2012!
　　Winner of Russian Literary Prize 2008!
　　Winner of Debut Literary Prize!