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Title: Day of the Oprichnik
Author: Vladimir Sorokin
ISBN: 9780374533106
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 2012
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Edition: Reprint
Condition Note: New from the publisher
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One of The Telegraph‘s Best Fiction Books 2011
A startling, relentless portrait of a troubled and troubling Russian empire, Vladimir Sorokin’s Day of the Oprichnik is at once a richly imagined vision of the future and a razor-sharp diagnosis of a country in , 2028. A scream, a moan, and a death rattle slowly pull Andrei Danilovich Komiaga out of his drunken stupor. But wait–that’s just his ring tone. So begins another day in the life of an oprichnik, one of the czar’s most trusted courtiers–and one of the country’s most feared men. In this new New Russia, where futuristic technology and the draconian codes of Ivan the Terrible are in perfect synergy, Komiaga will attend extravagant parties, partake in brutal executions, and consume an arsenal of drugs. He will rape and pillage, and he will be moved to tears by the sweetly sung songs of his homeland. Vladimir Sorokin has imagined a near future both too disturbing to contemplate and too realistic to dismiss. But like all of his best work, Sorokin’s new novel explodes with invention and dark humor.
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