Vladimir Sorokin

• Feb-2007
• / Literary
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Ice is at the center of Vladimir Sorokin's epic Ice Trilogy, which is also published by NYRB Classics.

Moscow has been hit by a wave of brutal murders. The victims are of both sexes, from different backgrounds, and of all ages, but invaria...

• Oct-2008
• / Literary
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Vladimir Sorokin’s first published novel, The Queue, is a sly comedy about the late Soviet “years of stagnation.” Thousands of citizens are in line for . . . nobody knows quite what, but the rumors are flying. Leather or suede? Jackets, jeans? ...

• Mar-2011
• / Literary
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Moscow, 2028. A cold, snowy morning. Andrei Danilovich Komiaga is fast asleep. A scream, a moan, and a death rattle slowly pull him out of his drunken stupor--but wait, that's just his ring tone. And so begins another day in the life of an oprichn...

• Mar-2011
• / Science Fiction
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A New York Review Books Original In 1908, deep in Siberia, it fell to earth. THEIR ICE. A young man on a scientific expedition found it. It spoke to his heart, and his heart named him Bro. Bro felt the Ice. Bro knew its purpose. To bring togethe...

• Dec-2015
• / Historical
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A dazzling, utterly distinctive saga from Russia's most celebrated and most controversial novelist Garin, a district doctor, is desperately trying to reach the village of Dolgoye, where a mysterious epidemic is turning people into zombies. He carr...

• Jun-2022
• / Literary
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In many respects, Their Four Hearts is a book of endings and final things. Vladimir Sorokin wrote it in the year the Soviet Union collapsed and then didn’t write fiction for ten years after completing it�"�"his next book being the infamous Blue L...

• Aug-2022
• / Dystopian
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In the warring, neo-feudal society of this cross-genre novel for fans of Cormac McCarthy and William Gibson, the greatest treasure is a dose of tellurium -- a magical drug administered by a spike through the brain.Telluria is set in the future, when ...

• Aug-2023
• / Literary
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Grotesque, deconstructive, and absolutely genius, Vladimir Sorokin’s short story collection Dispatches from the District Committee is a revelatory, offbeat portrait of Soviet life beyond the propaganda and state-sponsored realism.Celebrated -- and ...

• Feb-2024
• / Literary
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The Russian master's most infamous novel, a dystopian fever dream about cloning, alternative histories, and world domination.Blue Lard is an act of desecration. Blue Lard is what's left after the towering masterpieces of Russian literature have been ...

• Feb-2024
• / General Fiction
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Extended comic turns like The Queue and relentless, mind-bending, genre-shredding extravaganzas like Ice Trilogy have established Vladimir Sorokin as a master of the contemporary novel. It is to Sorokin’s short fiction, however, that readers must t...

• Aug-2025
• / Literary
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A puzzle of colorful, sardonic episodes that come together as a portrait of totalitarian society as a whole.Sugar Kremlin follows the near-future universe of Sorokin’s Day of the Oprichnik, crafting a set of 15 chapters that all return to the symbo...