The Blizzard (Penguin Modern Classics)

Author: Sorokin, Vladimir

Brand: Penguin Random House

Binding: paperback

Number Of Pages: 192

Release Date: 01-11-2018

Part Number: 9780241355138

Details: 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.

EAN: 9780241355138

Package Dimensions: 7.7 x 5.1 x 0.5 inches

Languages: English, Russian