Can I read The Slynx: A Novel on EtoBox?

The Slynx: A Novel by Tolstaya, Tatyana is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is The Slynx: A Novel about?

Two hundred years after civilization ended in an event known as the Blast, Benedikt isn’t one to complain. He’s got a job—transcribing old books and presenting them as the words of the great new leader, Fyodor Kuzmich, Glorybe—and though he doesn’t enjoy the privileged status of a Murza, at least he’s not a serf or a half-human four-legged Degenerator harnessed to a troika. He has a house, too, with enough mice to cook up a tasty meal, and he’s happily free of mutations: no extra fingers, no gills, no cockscombs sprouting from his eyelids. And he’s managed—at least so far—to steer clear of the ever-vigilant Saniturions, who track down anyone who manifests the slightest sign of Freethinking, and the legendary screeching Slynx that waits in the wilderness beyond. Tatyana Tolstaya’s *The Slynx* reimagines dystopian fantasy as a wild, horripilating amusement park ride. Poised between Nabokov’s Pale Fire and Burgess’s A Clockwork Orange, The Slynx is a brilliantly inventive and shimmeringly ambiguous work of art: an account of a degraded world that is full of echoes of the sublime literature of Russia’s past; a grinning portrait of human inhumanity; a tribute to art in both its sovereig

Who reads The Slynx: A Novel?

Author

Tolstaya, Tatyana

Publisher

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company

Published

2003

Language

EN

ISBN

9780618124978

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Fantasy Fiction

Rating

3.8 / 5 (83 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14