The Blizzard
$23.55
- Paperback
192 pages
- Release Date
15 November 2018
Summary
A darkly comic dystopian odyssey, from one of Russia’s leading contemporary novelists.
Garin, a country doctor, is desperately trying to reach the village of Dolgoye, where a mysterious epidemic is transforming the villagers into zombies. He has with him a vaccine which will prevent the spread of this epidemic, but a terrible blizzard turns his journey into the stuff of nightmare. A trip that should take hours turns into a metaphysical odyssey, in which he encounters strange beasts, a…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241355138 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0241355133 |
| Author: | Vladimir Sorokin, Jamey Gambrell |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 192 |
| Release Date: | 15 November 2018 |
| Weight: | 150g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 128mm x 13mm |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
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Vladimir Sorokin [is] Russia’s most inventive contemporary author
Vladimir Sorokin [is] Russia’s most inventive contemporary author – Masha Gessen * New York Times Book Review *
About The Author
Vladimir Sorokin
Vladimir Sorokin (born 1955) is the author of eleven novels, including The Blizzard, also published as a Penguin Modern Classic, The Ice Trilogy and The 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.
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