The Sacred Book of the Werewolf
By Victor Pelevin
(Viking Adult, Hardcover, 9780670019885, 336pp.)
Publication Date: September 2008
Other Editions of This Title: eBook, Paperback (September 2009), (September 2008), (September 2008), Compact Disc (September 2008), MP3 CD (September 2008)
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Paranormal meets transcendental in this provocative and hilarious novel.
Victor Pelevin has established a reputation as one of the most brilliant writers at work today; his comic inventiveness has won him comparisons to Kafka, Calvino, and Gogol, and Time has described him as a "psychedelic Nabokov for the cyberage." Pelevin's new novel, his first in six years, is both a supernatural love story and a satirical portrait of modern Russia. It concerns the adventures of a hardworking fifteen-year-old Moscow prostitute named A. Huli, who in reality is a two thousand-year-old were-fox who seduces men in order to absorb their life force; she does this by means of her tail, a hypnotic organ that puts men into a trance in which they dream they are having sex with her. A. Huli eventually comes to the attention of and falls in love with a high-ranking Russian intelligence officer named Alexander, who is also a werewolf (unbeknownst to our heroine). And that is only the beginning of the fun. A huge success in Russia, this is a stunning and ingenious work of the imagination, arguably Pelevin's sharpest and most engrossing novel to date.
Victor Pelevin is recognized as one of the leading Russian novelists writing today. His novel Buddha's Little Finger was a finalist for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. He is the winner of the Nonino Prize and the Richard- Schonfeld Prize for satire, and has been featured in The New York Times Magazine and The New Yorker. His novels have been published in thirty-three countries.
? Full of tour de force passages, and full of sex, the novel yet succeeds in not being one of those showy, sexy, cold-hearted books. The fantasy is fueled by passion, the humor by grief.?
?Ursula K. Le Guin
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