A darkly comic dystopian odyssey, from one of Russia's leading contemporary novelistsGarin, 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 epidemic, but a terrible blizzard turns his journey into the stuff of nightmare. A trip that should take hours turns into a metaphysical odyssey, in which he encounters strange beasts, apparitions, hallucinations and dangerous fellow men. Trapped in this existential storm, Sorokin's characters fight their way through a landscape that owes as much to Chekhov's 19th-century Russia as it does to near-future, post-apocalyptic literature. Fantastical, comic and richly drawn, The Blizzard at once answers to the canon of Russian writers and makes a fierce statement about life in contemporary Russia.

The Blizzard

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Vladimir Sorokin

Science Fiction

Penguin Classics

Vladimir Sorokinâs first published novel, The Queue, is a sly comedy about the late Soviet âyears of stagnation.â 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 doesnât matterâif anything is on sale, you better line up to buy it. Sorokinâs tour de force of ventriloquism and formal daring tells the whole story in snatches of unattributed dialogue, adding up to nothing less than the real voice of the people, overheard on the street as they joke and curse, fall in and out of love, slurp down ice cream or vodka, fill out crossword puzzles, even go to sleep and line up again in the morning as the queue drags on.

The Queue

Literature & Fiction

Literary

UNKNO

Inaugural issue. Polemics against the New Republic, McSweeney's, and the Weekly Standard. Mark Greif's "Against Exercise" and "Mogadishu, Baghdad, Troy." Keith Gessen's "Eggers, Teen Idol." Benjamin Kunkel's "Horse Mountain." Patrick Giles on James McCourt. And the first and only English-language translation of Vladimir Sorokin's The Norm.

n+1, Number One: Negation

MASHA GESSEN

Marco Roth

Mark Greif

Benjamin Kunkel

Keith Gessen

Sam Lipsyte

Dushko Petrovich

Joshua Glenn

n+1 Research

Russkii rasskaz KhKh veka

Zakharov

Day of the Oprichnik

Humor & Satire

Zaharov (M.)

Russian Book. Publisher: AdMarginem, M. Pages: 393. Year: 2002. Cover: Hardcover.

Norm/Norma

Ad Marginem

Ochered

Ambo/Anthos Uitgevers

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