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The Blizzard

Name: The Blizzard
Rating: 5.0 (4 reviews)
ISBN: 9780374114374

Vladimir Sorokin

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A dazzling, utterly distinctive saga from Russia's most celebrated—and most controversial—novelist Vladimir Sorokin is one of Russia's most popular and provocative novelists. In his scabrous dystopian satire Day of the Oprichnik, American readers were introduced to his distinctive style, which combines an edgy avant-garde sensibility with a fondness for the absurd and even the grotesque—all in service of bringing out stinging truths about life in modern-day Russia. In The Blizzard, we are immersed in the atmosphere of a nineteenth-century Russia. Garin, a district doctor, is desperately trying to reach the village of Dolgoye, where a mysterious epidemic is turning people into zombies. He carries with him a vaccine that will prevent the spread of this terrible disease but is stymied in his travels by an all-consuming snowstorm, an impenetrable blizzard that turns a drive that should last only a few hours into a...

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Year:

2022

Publisher:

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Language:

English

ISBN 10:

2015010964

ISBN 13:

9780374114374