The Blue Lantern (Paperback, Main)

A collection of short stories that seek to question the nature of reality. From prostitutes and engineers to, most farcically, chickens plotting their escape from slaughter on a broiler farm, Pelevin's protagonists throw up ideas at once bizarre, funny and philosophical. Winner of the Russian 'Little Booker' prize for the best new fiction by a Russian writer. (Kirkus UK)

The short stories of Victor Pelevin are as individual, reality-warping and endlessly inventive as his novels, moving effortlessly between different genres and moods, bursting with absurd wit and existential satire. In The Blue Lantern he brings together sex-change prostitutes, melancholy animals and a cabinful of young boys obsessed by death. Sidestepping the world we take for granted, these stories show in miniature the fantastical talent for which the Observer acclaimed Pelevin's work as 'the real thing, fiction of world class'.

General

Imprint:	Faber and Faber
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	February 2001
Authors:	Victor Pelevin
Translators:	Andrew Bromfield
Dimensions:	198 x 127 x 12mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	192
Edition:	Main
ISBN-13:	978-0-571-20018-4
Categories:	Books
LSN:	0-571-20018-4
Barcode:	9780571200184

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