About the Author

Victor Pelevin is one of Russia's most successful post-Soviet writers. He won the Russian Booker prize in 1993 Born on November 22, 1962 in Moscow, he attended the Moscow Institute of Power Engineering, and the Institute of Literature. He's now been published throughout Europe. His books include A Werewolf Problem in Central Russia, Omon Ra, The Blue Lantern, The Yellow Arrow, and The Hall of the Singing Caryatids.

Reviews

"In The Blue Lantern & Other Stories, Pelevin continues to gnaw at our confidence in conventional reality, like a dog worrying a bone."
*New York Times Book Review*