Buddha's Little Finger - Softcover

Pelevin, Victor

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0141002328 ISBN 13: 9780141002323

Publisher: Penguin, 2001

Synopsis

Russian novelist Victor Pelevin is rapidly establishing himself as one of the most brilliant young writers at work today. His comic inventiveness and mind-bending talent prompted Time magazine to proclaim him a "psychedelic Nabokov for the cyber-age." In his third novel, Buddha's Little Finger, Pelevin has created an intellectually dazzling tale about identity and Russian history, as well as a spectacular elaboration of Buddhist philosophy. Moving between events of the Russian Civil War of 1919 and the thoughts of a man incarcerated in a contemporary Moscow psychiatric hospital, Buddha's Little Finger is a work of demonic absurdism by a writer who continues to delight and astonish.

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Review:

"Structurally cunning and delightfully intense...a work of rare intelligence and bite." --San Francisco Chronicle Book Review

About the Author:

Victor Pelevin is the author of A Werewolf Problem in Central Russia and Other Stories, The Life of Insects, Omon Ra, The Yellow Arrow, and The Blue Lantern, a collection of short stories that won the Russian "Little Booker" Prize. His novel Buddha's Little Finger was shortlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. He was named by The New Yorker as one of the best European writers under thirty-five and by The Observer newspaper in London as one of "twenty-one writers to watch for the 21st century."

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0141002328
• ISBN 13: 9780141002323
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 352