Victor Pelevin

• Jun-1996
• / Science Fiction
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"An inventive comedy as black as outer space itself. Makes The Right Stuff looks like a NASA handout." -- Tibor Fischer. Victor Pelevin's novel Omon Ra has been widely praised for its poetry and its wickedness, a novel in line with the great works of...

• Apr-1997
• / General Fiction
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Set during the advent of perestroika, a surreal, satirical novella by a critically acclaimed young Russian writer traces the fate of the passengers on The Yellow Arrow, a long-distance Russian train headed for a ruined bridge, a train without an end ...

• Feb-1998
• / General Fiction
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While discussing business prospects in the Crimea, a trio of investors from Russia and America suddenly morphs into mosquitoes searching for sucrose, in a disorienting novel that makes the purpose of life for insects a universal goal. Reprint....

• May-2000
• / General Fiction
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Russian novelist Victor Pelevin is rapidly establishing himself as one of the most brilliant young writers at work today. His comic inventiveness and mind-bending talent prompted Time magazine to proclaim him a "psychedelic Nabokov for the cyber-age....

• Jun-2000
• / Fantasy
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In a recent New York Times Magazine feature article, Victor Pelevin was cited as "almost alone among his generation of Russian novelists in speaking with a voice authentically his own, and in trying to write about Russian life in its current idiom." ...

• Feb-2001
• / General Fiction
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• Oct-2001
• / General Fiction
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Hermit and Six Toes; Vera Pavlovna's Ninth Dream; The Life and Adventures of Shed Number XII; and Tai Shou Chuan USSR are four characteristic stories by the young Russian virtuoso Victor Pelevin, here collected in a New Directions Bibelot edition. Wi...

• Feb-2002
• / General Fiction
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The collapse of the Soviet Union has opened up a huge consumer market, but how do you sell things to a generation that grew up with just one type of cola? When Tatarsky, a frustrated poet, takes a job as an advertising copywriter, he finds he has a t...

• May-2003
• / General Fiction
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Stories by the renowned Russian wizard. Victor Pelevin is "the only young Russian novelist to have made an impression in the West" (Village Voice). A Werewolf Problem in Central Russia, the second of Pelevin's Russian Booker Prize-winning short story...

• Apr-2006
• / Fantasy
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When Ariadne helped Theseus escape the MInotaur's labyrinth with the aid of a ball of thread, she led the way for the bewildered victims of a twenty-first century minotaur. Trapped in an endless maze of Internet chatrooms, a group of mystified st...

• Sep-2008
• / Fantasy
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SHE IMPERSONATES A LASCIVIOUS FIFTEEN-YEAR-OLD PROSTITUTE, but in reality A Hu-Li is something far more unusual -- a two-thousand-year-old shape-shifting werefox from ancient China. Hypnotizing men to absorb their life force isn't the worst way to ma...

• Jan-2010
• / Literary
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"At the very start of the third semester, in one of the lectures on Marxism-Leninism, Nikita Dozakin made a remarkable discovery," begins the story "Sleep." Nikita's discovery is that everyone around him, from parents to television talk-show hosts, i...

• Nov-2011
• / Literary
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A far-out, far-fetched, and fiendishly funny story about a strange nightclub and its outrageous entertainment. After auditioning for the part as a singing geisha at a dubious bar, Lena and eleven other “lucky” girls are sent to work at a posh und...

• Jun-2015
• / Literary
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Damilola Karpov is a pilot. Living in Byzantium, a huge sky city floating above the land of Urkaine, he makes his living as a drone pilot - capable of being a cameraman who records the events unfolding in Urkaine or, with the weapons aboard his drone...

• Feb-2016
• / Literary
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Roman thought he'd found the perfect opportunity to rebel. He may have been wrong.He awakens strapped to a set of parallel bars in a richly appointed sitting room, and begins a conversation with a masked man which will change his life. His world has ...