Homo Zapiens

Pelevin, Victor

ISBN 10: 067003066X / ISBN 13: 9780670030668

Published by Viking, New York, 2002

About this Item

8vo, 250 pp., Translated by Andrew Bromfield, Teddy bear and barbie doll dust jacket. Seller Inventory # 058168

Bibliographic Details

Title: Homo Zapiens

Publisher: Viking, New York

Publication Date: 2002

Binding: hardcover

Condition: Fine copy in fine dust jacket

Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

Edition: 1st edition.

About this title

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.

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