Omon Ra

Pelevin, Victor

ISBN 10: 0374225923 / ISBN 13: 9780374225926

Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 1996

About this Item

Book and jacket are in new condition. No marks. No wear. A satire on the now defunct Soviet space program. "a cosmonaut's coming of age". Original price of $21.00 intact on jacket flap.

Seller Inventory # 019873

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Omon Ra
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York
• Publication Date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0374225923
• ISBN 13: 9780374225926
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine

About this title

Synopsis

A satire about the Soviet space program finds Omon, who has dreamed of space flight all of his life, enrolling as a cosmonaut, only to learn that his task will be piloting a supposedly unmanned lunar vehicle to the moon and remaining there to die.

Review

A freshly jaundiced view of a distorted world.

A freshly jaundiced view of a distorted world. "

And in its final moments, about what happens when this poor boy actually finds himself rocketing toward the moon, are surely the most memorable passages I read this year.--Dwight Garner

Pelevin is a master absurdist, a brilliant satirist of all things Soviet, but also of things human: our corruptible dreams, petty squabbles, half-assed inventions and, above all, our tendency to allow the purer parts of our nature to be co-opted.