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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewVladimir Sorokin [is] Russia's most inventive contemporary author -- Masha Gessen * New York Times Book Review *
Vladimir Sorokin is one of Russia's greatest writers, and this novel is one of his best.
Day of the Oprichnik is a
haunting and terrifying vision of modern Russia projected two decades into the future - or maybe not the future at all.
A joy to read -
more entertaining, dynamic, engaging, and deeply hilarious than a dystopian novel has any right to be -- Gary Shteyngart * author of Absurdistan and Super Sad True Love Story *
Anyone who wants to learn more about Russia and what could be the outcome of [Vladimir] Putin's rule should read the book. It's dark and dystopian, but it's a part of our life -- Garry Kasparov * Time *
Compelling . . .
Devastating . . .
Powerful . . . In
Day of the Oprichnik, [Sorokin] combines futurological invention with political archaism to vicious satirical effect . . . It's as if hi-tech limbs had been grafted onto the torso of early modern statecraft:
Wolf Hall meets William Gibson -- Tony Wood * London Review of Books *
