{"product_id":"a-werewolf-problem-in-central-russia-and-other-stories-9780811218603","title":"A Werewolf Problem in Central Russia: And Other Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Victor Pelevin | Andrew Bromfield\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: New Directions Publishing Corporation\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Short Stories (single author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVictor Pelevin is \"the only young Russian novelist to have made an impression in the West\" (\u003cem\u003eVillage Voice\u003c\/em\u003e). \u003cem\u003eA Werewolf Problem in Central Russia\u003c\/em\u003e, the second of Pelevin's Russian Booker Prize-winning short story collections, continues his Sputnik-like rise. The writers to whom he is frequently compared--Kafka, Bulgakov, Philip K. Dick, and Joseph Heller--are all deft fabulists, who find fuel for their fires in society's deadening protocol.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"At the very start of the third semester, in one of the lectures on Marxism-Leninism, Nikita Dozakin made a remarkable discovery,\" begins the story \"Sleep.\" Nikita's discovery is that everyone around him, from parents to television talk-show hosts, is actually asleep. In \"Vera Pavlova's Ninth Dream,\" the attendant in a public toilet finds that her researches into solipsism have dire and diabolical consequences. In the title story, a young Muscovite, Sasha, stumbles upon a group of people in the forest who can transform themselves into wolves. As \u003cem\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e noted, \"Pelevin's allegories are reminiscent of children's fairy tales in their fantastic depictions of worlds within worlds, solitary souls tossed helplessly among them.\" Pelevin--whom \u003cem\u003eSpin\u003c\/em\u003e called \"a master absurdist, a brilliant satirist of things Soviet, but also of things human\"--carries us in \u003cem\u003eA Werewolf Problem in Central Russia\u003c\/em\u003e to a land of great sublimity and black comic brilliance.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Atlantic Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46311901528215,"sku":"9780811218603","price":1748.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780811218603.webp?v=1767703583","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/a-werewolf-problem-in-central-russia-and-other-stories-9780811218603","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}