Author: Victor Pelevin
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811215435
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Satirical stories by a Russian writer. The story, Vera Pavlovna's Ninth Dream, is on the transition from communism to capitalism as experienced by the cleaner of a public toilet, Bulldozer Driver's Day is on a hydrogen bomb assembly line, while The Ontology of Childhood compares childhood to prison. By the author of The Blue Lantern.
A Werewolf Problem in Central Russia and Other Stories
Author: Victor Pelevin
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811215435
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Satirical stories by a Russian writer. The story, Vera Pavlovna's Ninth Dream, is on the transition from communism to capitalism as experienced by the cleaner of a public toilet, Bulldozer Driver's Day is on a hydrogen bomb assembly line, while The Ontology of Childhood compares childhood to prison. By the author of The Blue Lantern.
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811215435
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Satirical stories by a Russian writer. The story, Vera Pavlovna's Ninth Dream, is on the transition from communism to capitalism as experienced by the cleaner of a public toilet, Bulldozer Driver's Day is on a hydrogen bomb assembly line, while The Ontology of Childhood compares childhood to prison. By the author of The Blue Lantern.
The Blue Lantern and Other Stories
Author: Victor Pelevin
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811214346
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Comic stories by a Russian writer. In Hermit and Six Toes, chickens debate the nature of the world, which is ruled by bloodthirsty gods in white coats, while in Mid-Game, young Communist activists change sex to become hard-currency prostitutes.
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811214346
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Comic stories by a Russian writer. In Hermit and Six Toes, chickens debate the nature of the world, which is ruled by bloodthirsty gods in white coats, while in Mid-Game, young Communist activists change sex to become hard-currency prostitutes.
4 by Pelevin
Author: Viktor Pelevin
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811214919
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
"The literary voice of the post-Soviet generation." --The New York Times
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811214919
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
"The literary voice of the post-Soviet generation." --The New York Times
Omon Ra
Author: Viktor Pelevin
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811213646
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
A satire about the Soviet space program finds Omon, who has dreamed of space flight all of his life, enrolled as a cosmonaut only to learn that his task will be piloting a supposedly unmanned lunar vehicle to the Moon and remaining there to die.
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811213646
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
A satire about the Soviet space program finds Omon, who has dreamed of space flight all of his life, enrolled as a cosmonaut only to learn that his task will be piloting a supposedly unmanned lunar vehicle to the Moon and remaining there to die.
The Sacred Book of the Werewolf
Author: Viktor Pelevin
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780670019885
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
A novel about a fifteen-year-old prostitute who is actually a 2,000-year old werefox who seduces men with her tail and drains them of their sexual power. She falls in love with a KGB officer who is actually a werewolf.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780670019885
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
A novel about a fifteen-year-old prostitute who is actually a 2,000-year old werefox who seduces men with her tail and drains them of their sexual power. She falls in love with a KGB officer who is actually a werewolf.
Homo Zapiens
Author: Victor Pelevin
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101175265
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
The collapse of the Soviet Union has opened up a huge consumer market, but how do you sell things to a generation that grew up with just one type of cola? When Tatarsky, a frustrated poet, takes a job as an advertising copywriter, he finds he has a talent for putting distinctively Russian twists on Western-style ads. But his success leads him into a surreal world of spin doctors, gangsters, drug trips, and the spirit of Che Guevera, who, by way of a Ouija board, communicates theories of consumer theology. A bestseller in Russia, Homo Zapiens displays the biting absurdist satire that has gained Victor Pelevin superstar status among today's Russian youth, disapproval from the conservative Moscow literary world, and critical acclaim worldwide.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101175265
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
The collapse of the Soviet Union has opened up a huge consumer market, but how do you sell things to a generation that grew up with just one type of cola? When Tatarsky, a frustrated poet, takes a job as an advertising copywriter, he finds he has a talent for putting distinctively Russian twists on Western-style ads. But his success leads him into a surreal world of spin doctors, gangsters, drug trips, and the spirit of Che Guevera, who, by way of a Ouija board, communicates theories of consumer theology. A bestseller in Russia, Homo Zapiens displays the biting absurdist satire that has gained Victor Pelevin superstar status among today's Russian youth, disapproval from the conservative Moscow literary world, and critical acclaim worldwide.
The Life of Insects
Author: Victor Pelevin
Publisher: Penguin Mass Market
ISBN: 9780571194056
Category : Black Sea Coast
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Set in a crumbling Soviet Black Sea resort, The Life of Insects with its motley cast of characters who exist simultaneously as human beings (racketeers, mystics, drug addicts and prostitutes) and as insects, extended the surreal comic range for which Pelevin's first novel Omon Ra was acclaimed by critics. With consummate literary skill Pelevin creates a satirical bestiary which is as realistic as it is delirious - a bitter parable of contemporary Russia, full of the probing, disenchanted comedy that makes Pelevin a vital and altogether surprising writer.
Publisher: Penguin Mass Market
ISBN: 9780571194056
Category : Black Sea Coast
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Set in a crumbling Soviet Black Sea resort, The Life of Insects with its motley cast of characters who exist simultaneously as human beings (racketeers, mystics, drug addicts and prostitutes) and as insects, extended the surreal comic range for which Pelevin's first novel Omon Ra was acclaimed by critics. With consummate literary skill Pelevin creates a satirical bestiary which is as realistic as it is delirious - a bitter parable of contemporary Russia, full of the probing, disenchanted comedy that makes Pelevin a vital and altogether surprising writer.
The Hall of Singing Caryatids
Author: Viktor Pelevin
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811219426
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
A far-out, far-fetched, and fiendishly funny story about a strange nightclub and its outrageous entertainment.
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811219426
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
A far-out, far-fetched, and fiendishly funny story about a strange nightclub and its outrageous entertainment.
The Funeral Party
Author: Ludmila Ulitskaya
Publisher: Schocken
ISBN: 030777256X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
August 1991. In a sweltering New York City apartment, a group of Russian émigrés gathers round the deathbed of an artist named Alik, a charismatic character beloved by them all, especially the women who take turns nursing him as he fades from this world. Their reminiscences of the dying man and of their lives in Russia are punctuated by debates and squabbles: Whom did Alik love most? Should he be baptized before he dies, as his alcoholic wife, Nina, desperately wishes, or be reconciled to the faith of his birth by a rabbi who happens to be on hand? And what will be the meaning for them of the Yeltsin putsch, which is happening across the world in their long-lost Moscow but also right before their eyes on CNN? This marvelous group of individuals inhabits the first novel by Ludmila Ulitskaya to be published in English, a book that was shortlisted for the Russian Booker Prize and has been praised wherever translated editions have appeared. Simultaneously funny and sad, lyrical in its Russian sorrow and devastatingly keen in its observation of character, The Funeral Party introduces to our shores a wonderful writer who captures, wryly and tenderly, our complex thoughts and emotions confronting life and death, love and loss, homeland and exile.
Publisher: Schocken
ISBN: 030777256X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
August 1991. In a sweltering New York City apartment, a group of Russian émigrés gathers round the deathbed of an artist named Alik, a charismatic character beloved by them all, especially the women who take turns nursing him as he fades from this world. Their reminiscences of the dying man and of their lives in Russia are punctuated by debates and squabbles: Whom did Alik love most? Should he be baptized before he dies, as his alcoholic wife, Nina, desperately wishes, or be reconciled to the faith of his birth by a rabbi who happens to be on hand? And what will be the meaning for them of the Yeltsin putsch, which is happening across the world in their long-lost Moscow but also right before their eyes on CNN? This marvelous group of individuals inhabits the first novel by Ludmila Ulitskaya to be published in English, a book that was shortlisted for the Russian Booker Prize and has been praised wherever translated editions have appeared. Simultaneously funny and sad, lyrical in its Russian sorrow and devastatingly keen in its observation of character, The Funeral Party introduces to our shores a wonderful writer who captures, wryly and tenderly, our complex thoughts and emotions confronting life and death, love and loss, homeland and exile.
The Yellow Arrow
Author: Viktor Pelevin
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811213240
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
THE YELLOW ARROW is a Russian train speeding toward a ruined bridge, a train without an end or a beginningand it makes no stops. Andrei, the mystic passenger, less and less lulled by the never-ending sound of the wheels, has begun to look for a way to get off. But life in the carriages goes on as always. This important young Russian author's first American translation garnered rave reviews.
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811213240
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
THE YELLOW ARROW is a Russian train speeding toward a ruined bridge, a train without an end or a beginningand it makes no stops. Andrei, the mystic passenger, less and less lulled by the never-ending sound of the wheels, has begun to look for a way to get off. But life in the carriages goes on as always. This important young Russian author's first American translation garnered rave reviews.