The Blizzard, Paperback/Vladimir Sorokin

Long-listed for the 2016 PEN Translation Prize A New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice A dazzling, utterly distinctive saga from the internationally celebrated and controversial novelist Vladimir Sorokin, the shock jock of Russian letters ( Harper's ). Vladimir Sorokin [is] Russia's most inventive contemporary author . . . [Gambrell's] translation is as elegant, playful and layered as the original. --Masha Gessen, The New York Times Book Review Garin, a district doctor, is desperately trying to reach the village of Dolgoye, where a mysterious epidemic is turning people into zombies. He carries with him a vaccine that will prevent the spread of this terrible disease, but is stymied in his travels by an impenetrable blizzard. A trip that should last no more than a few hours turns into a metaphysical journey, an expedition filled with extraordinary encounters, dangerous escapades, torturous imaginings, and amorous adventures. Trapped in an existential storm, Vladimir Sorokin's characters fight their way across a landscape that owes as much to Chekhov's Russian countryside as it does to the postapocalyptic terrain of science fiction. Hypnotic, fascinating, and richly drawn, The Blizzard is a seminal work from one of the most inventive authors writing today. Sorokin has created yet another boldly original work, which combines an avant-garde sensibility with a taste for the absurd and the grotesque, all while delivering stinging truths about contemporary life and modern-day Russia. 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. Book specifications: Dimensions: 216 x 140 Author: Vladimir Sorokin Cover type: Paperback Publishing Year: 2022 Publishing Month: 5 Pages: 192 Language: English Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux Weight: 249 g