Vladimir Sorokin Blizzard Paperback Book

A darkly comic dystopian odyssey, from one of Russias leading contemporary novelistsGarin, 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, Sorokins characters fight their way through a landscape that owes as much to Chekhovs 19thcentury Russia as it does to nearfuture, postapocalyptic 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. | Vladimir Sorokin Blizzard Paperback Book