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Blue Lard by Vladimir Sorokin; Max Lawton (Afterword by, Translator)
Category: Fiction
The Russian master's most infamous novel, a dystopian fever dream about cloning, alternative histories, and world domination.Vladimir Sorokin's Blue Lard is the most iconic and iconoclastic Russian novel of the last forty years. Thanks in part to its depiction of Stalin and Khrushchev having sex, which ...Show more
Day of the Oprichnik by Vladimir Sorokin
Category: Fiction
Moscow, 2028. A cold, snowy morning. Andrei Danilovich Komiaga is fast asleep. A scream, a moan, and a death rattle slowly pull him out of his drunken stupor but wait, that's just his ring tone. And so begins another day in the life of an oprichnik, one of the czar's most trusted courtiers and one of th ...Show more
Day of the Oprichnik: A novel by Vladimir Sorokin
Category: Science Fiction
One of The Telegraph's Best Fiction Books 2011 Moscow, 2028. A cold, snowy morning. Andrei Danilovich Komiaga is fast asleep. A scream, a moan, and a death rattle slowly pull him out of his drunken stupor--but wait, that's just his ring tone. And so begins another day in the life of an oprichnik, one ...Show more
Ice Trilogy by Vladimir Sorokin
Category: Science Fiction
Ice-which recounted the escapades of a group of blond, blueeyed homicidal fanatics, the so-called Brotherhood of Light, who consider themselves the chosen people and the rest of humanity so many expendable "meat machines"-was a gritty, blistering tale of contemporary Moscow at its most unhinged and viol ...Show more
Red Pyramid and Other Stories by Vladimir Sorokin; Max Lawton (Translator); Will Self (Introduction by)
Category: Short Stories
Provocative, hilarious, and tender stories about sex, violence, politics from one of the greatest Russian writers of the post-Soviet era. Red Pyramid is a sort of "greatest hits" collection of short stories from across Vladimir Sorokin's career, beginning with juvenilia like "The Pink Tuber," compos ...Show more
Telluria by Vladimir Sorokin
Category: Fiction
In the warring, neo-feudal society of this cross-genre novel for fans of Cormac McCarthy and William Gibson, the greatest treasure is a dose of tellurium-a magical drug administered by a spike through the brain.Telluria is set in the future, when a devastating holy war between Europe and Islam has succe ...Show more
The Blizzard by Vladimir Sorokin
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
A darkly comic dystopian odyssey, from one of Russia's leading contemporary novelists Garin, a country doctor, is desperately trying to reach the village of Dolgoye, where a mysterious epidemic is transforming the villagers into zombies. He has with him a vaccine which will prevent the spread of this e ...Show more
The Queue by Vladimir Sorokin
Category: Fiction | Series: New York Review Books Classics
Vladimir Sorokin's first published novel, The Queue, is a sly comedy about the late Soviet "years of stagnation." Thousands of citizens are in line for . . . nobody knows quite what, but the rumors are flying. Leather or suede? Jackets, jeans? Turkish, Swedish, maybe even American? It doesn't matter-if ...Show more
Their Four Hearts by Vladimir Sorokin; Max Lawton (Translator); Gregory Klassen (Illustrator)
Category: Fiction | Series: Russian Literature Ser.
In many respects, Their Four Hearts is a book of endings and final things. Vladimir Sorokin wrote it in the year the Soviet Union collapsed and then didn't write fiction for ten years after completing it--his next book being the infamous Blue Lard, which he wrote in 1998. Without exaggerating too much, ...Show more
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