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One of The Telegraph s Best Fiction Books 2011 Moscow, 2028. A cold, snowy morning. Andrei Danilovich Komiaga is fast asleep. A scream, a moan, and a death rattle slowly pull him out of his drunken stuporbut wait, thats just his ring tone. And so begins another day in the life of an oprichnik, one of the czars most trusted courtiersand one of the countrys most feared men. Welcome to the new New Russia, where futuristic technology and the draconian codes of Ivan the Terrible are in perfect synergy. Corporal punishment is back, as is a divine monarch, but these days everyone gets information from high-tech news bubbles, and the elite get high on hallucinogenic, genetically modified fish. Over the course of one day, Andrei Komiaga will bear witness toand participate inbrutal executions; extravagant parties; meetings with ballerinas, soothsayers, and even the czarina. He will rape and pillage, and he will be moved to tears by the sweetly sung songs of his homeland. He will consume an arsenal of drugs and denounce threats to his great nations morals. And he will fall in loveperhaps even with a number of his colleagues. Vladimir Sorokin, the man described by Keith Gessen (in The New York

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Author

Vladimir Sorokin; Jamey Gambrell

Publisher

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9780374533106

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Humanities

Rating

3.67 / 5 (1,877 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13