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A darkly comic dystopian odyssey, from one of Russia's leading contemporary novelists.

About the Author

Vladimir Sorokin (born 1955) is the author of eleven novels, including The Blizzard, also published as a Penguin Modern Classic, The Ice Trilogy andThe Queue. His works have been translated into thirty languages and won many prizes, including the Andrei Bely Prize and the Maxim Gorky Prize. In 2013 he was a finalist for the Man Booker International Prize. He lives in Moscow.

Reviews

Vladimir Sorokin [is] Russia's most inventive contemporary author
*New York Times Book Review*