Vladimir Sorokin

The Blizzard (eBook, ePUB)

A Novel
Übersetzer: Gambrell, Jamey

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A dazzling, utterly distinctive saga from the internationally celebrated and controversial novelist known as "the shock jock of Russian letters" ( Harper's ).

Longlisted for the 2016 PEN Translation Prize A New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice 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 post-apocalyptic terrain of science fiction. Hypnotic, fascinating, and richly drawn, The Blizzardis 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] 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 "Following the dystopian nightmare of Day of the Oprichnik and the epic, genre-bendingIce Trilogycomes The Blizzard , a more accessible but no less imaginative novel encompassing a familiar Russian vista with splashy avant-garde flourishes."¿Malcolm Forbes, Star Tribune

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780374709396
• Artikelnr.: 42962135

Autorenporträt

Vladimir Sorokin; Translated from the Russian by Jamey Gambrell