The Blizzard
€14.25
Product Information
| ISBN | 9780241355138 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Vladimir Sorokin |
| Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format | Paperback |
| Number of pages | 192 |
| Weight (kg) | 0.148 |
| Publishing Date | 01/11/2018 |
| Price (excl. tax) | €13.44 |
| Tax | €0.81 |
| Price (incl. tax) | €14.25 |
| Availability | 15 units in external warehouse |
Product Description
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, apparitions, hallucinations and dangerous fellow men. Trapped in this existential storm, Sorokin''s characters fight their way through a landscape that owes as much to Chekhov''s 19th-century Russia as it does to near-future, post-apocalyptic literature. Fantastical, comic and richly drawn, The Blizzard at once answers to the canon of Russian writers and makes a fierce statement about life in contemporary Russia.