Homo Zapiens - Hardcover

Pelevin, Victor

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 067003066X ISBN 13: 9780670030668

Publisher: Viking Pr, 2002

Synopsis

A richly textured novel of vanity, greed, and advertising revisits the collapse of the Soviet Union, which is now primed and ready for exploitation, as Tartarsky, a copywriter who has a knack for concocting home-grown alternatives to Western ads, is plunged into a realm of gangsters, spin doctors, and drug dealers where reality slowly begins to dissolve. 10,000 first printing.

About this title

Review:

"[Pelevin] conjures up the spirit of Dostoyevsky, as he dramatizes with a slashing wit and a ferocious moralism the battle for the Russian soul." --The Washington Post

"Pelevin's hardboiled wonderland of a Moscow sits well next to Murakami's Tokyo, Cortazar's Paris, and Terry Gilliam's Brazil." --Los Angeles Times

..".[A] bold, confidently written satire with more than a few laugh-out-loud moments." --Time Out New York

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: Viking Pr
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 067003066X
• ISBN 13: 9780670030668
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 250