A dazzling, utterly distinctive saga from Russia's most celebrated and most controversial novelist.
Vladimir Sorokin is the author of more than a dozen novels, including Day of the Oprichnik, The Blizzard, Ice Trilogy, and The Queue, as well as numerous plays, short stories, and screenplays. He wrote the libretto for Leonid Desyatnikov's The Children of Rosenthal, the first opera to be commissioned by the Bolshoi Theater in a quarter century. His books have been translated into thirty languages, and he has won the Andrei Bely and the Maxim Gorky prizes. In 2013, Sorokin was a finalist for the Man Booker International Prize.
"Vladimir Sorokin [is] Russia's most inventive contemporary author
. . . Knowing when to pick one's battles is the mark of a great
translator, and Gambrell is one. Her translation is as elegant,
playful and layered as the original--and never appears labored."
--Masha Gessen, The New York Times Book Review "Following the
dystopian nightmare of Day of the Oprichnik and the epic,
genre-bending Ice Trilogy comes The Blizzard, a more accessible but
no less imaginative novel encompassing a familiar Russian vista
with splashy avant-garde flourishes . . . Jamey Gambrell has
translated Sorokin before, but she deserves special mention here
for her skillful rendering of the book's many voices . . . The
colorful language, whether out-loud repartee or inner thoughts,
together with several vibrant daydreams and psychedelic
hallucinations, provide a neat contrast to the all-engulfing
whiteness of the blizzard." --Malcolm Forbes, Star Tribune
"Vladimir Sorokin, the translatosphere's favorite contemporary
Russian novelist, writes about, and with the pitilessness of, his
country's unremitting cold . . . The Blizzard . . . is a crazed
fantasia on Tolstoy's tale, with all the moralizing ingeniously
whited out." --Joshua Cohen, Harper's
"Sorokin's torturous sense of citizenship, which has reached a
fascinating impasse in his latest novel, The Blizzard, is the key
to one of the most transfixing bodies of work in world literature .
. . This astonishingly original writer, it seems safe to say,
hasn't yet hit the limits of his madcap imagination." --Michael
Lapointe, The New Republic
"An odyssey through a bizarre, irreverently-conceived world . . .
This is a wild quest through both a snowy landscape and the
author's imagination." --Heather Scott Partington, Electric
Literature "A dangerous and darkly fantastical expedition . . .
You'll tear through this one in a thunderous heartbeat." --Melissa
Ragsdale, Bustle
"Perhaps it's not surprising, given the weather, to find blizzards
and snowstorms proliferating throughout Russian literature from
Pushkin's magic tales to Vladimir Sorokin's mysterious 2010 novel,
The Blizzard . . .The Blizzard is, for all that, an outwardly
gentler novel than Day of the Oprichnik; but at its heart it is a
chilling vision of Russia's fatally erratic journey." --Phoebe
Taplin, Russia Beyond the Headlines
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