Omon Ra (Paperback)

Victor Pelevin's novel Omon Ra has been widely praised for its poetry and its wickedness, a novel in line with the great works of Gogol and Bulgakov: "full of the ridiculous and the sublime," says The Observer [London]. Omon is chosen to be trained in the Soviet space program the fulfillment of his lifelong dream. However, he enrolls only to encounter the terrifying absurdity of Soviet protocol and its backward technology: a bicycle-powered moonwalker; the outrageous Colonel Urgachin ("a kind of Sovier Dr. Strangelove"-The New York Times); and a one-way assignment to the moon. The New Yorker proclaimed: "Omon's adventure is like a rocket firing off its various stages-each incident is more jolting and propulsively absurd than the one before."

General

Imprint:	New Directions Publishing Corporation
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	February 1998
First published:	1998
Authors:	Victor Pelevin
Translators:	Andrew Bromfield
Dimensions:	203 x 132 x 13mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	154
ISBN-13:	978-0-8112-1364-6
Categories:	Books > Fiction > Genre fiction > Science fiction
LSN:	0-8112-1364-1
Barcode:	9780811213646

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