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New in Paperback “A postmodern literary masterpiece.” – The Times Literary Supplement Two hundred years after civilization ended in an event known as the Blast, Benedikt isnвЂTMt one to complain. HeвЂTMs got a job—transcribing old books and presenting them as the words of the great new leader, Fyodor Kuzmich, Glorybe—and though he doesnвЂTMt enjoy the privileged status of a Murza, at least heвЂTMs 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 heвЂTMs happily free of mutations: no extra fingers, no gills, no cockscombs sprouting from his eyelids. And heвЂTMs 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. В Tatyana TolstayaвЂTMs The Slynx reimagines dystopian fantasy as a wild, horripilating amusement park ride. Poised between NabokovвЂTMs Pale Fire and BurgessвЂTMs A Clockwork Orange , The Slynx is a brilliantly inventive and shimmeringly ambiguous work of art: an account of a degraded world that is fu

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Author

Tolstaya, Tatyana; Gambrell, Jamey

Publisher

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company

Published

1994

Language

EN

ISBN

9780618124978

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Fantasy

Rating

3.8 / 5 (83 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14