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Omon Ra (Paperback, Main): Victor Pelevin Omon Ra (Paperback, Main)
Victor Pelevin
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R264 R224 Discovery Miles 2 240 Save R40 (15%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Victor Pelevin's unforgettable first novel, Omon Ra, is the story of a young man who always dreamt of becoming the ultimate Russian hero, a cosmonaut in the mould of Yuri Gagarin. Enrolling as a cadet at the Zaraisk flying school, it is not long before he is chosen to be the sole pilot of a mission - to the dark side of the moon. 'An inventive comedy as black as outer space itself. Makes The Right Stuff look like a NASA handout.' Tibor Fischer

The Life of Insects (Paperback, Main): Victor Pelevin The Life of Insects (Paperback, Main)
Victor Pelevin
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R261 R242 Discovery Miles 2 420 Save R19 (7%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Set in a crumbling Soviet Black Sea resort, The Life of Insects with its motley cast of characters who exist simultaneously as human beings (racketeers, mystics, drug addicts and prostitutes) and as insects, extended the surreal comic range for which Pelevin's first novel Omon Ra was acclaimed by critics. With consummate literary skill Pelevin creates a satirical bestiary which is as realistic as it is delirious - a bitter parable of contemporary Russia, full of the probing, disenchanted comedy that makes Pelevin a vital and altogether surprising writer.

The Helmet of Horror - The Myth of Theseus and the Minotaur (Paperback): Victor Pelevin The Helmet of Horror - The Myth of Theseus and the Minotaur (Paperback)
Victor Pelevin; Translated by Andrew Bromfield
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R405 R342 Discovery Miles 3 420 Save R63 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A cyber-age retelling of the myth of Theseus and the Minotaur from one of Russia's most exciting young writers.
Labyrinth (noun): An intricate structure of intercommunicating passages, through which it is difficult to find one's way without a clue; a maze.
They have never met; they have been assigned strange pseudonyms; they inhabit identical rooms which open out onto very different landscapes; and they have entered into a dialogue which they cannot escape - a discourse defined and destroyed by the Helmet of Horror. Its wearer is the dominant force they call Asterisk, a force for good and ill in which the Minotaur is forever present and Theseus is the great unknown.
Victor Pelevin has created a mesmerising world where the surreal and the hyperreal collide. The Helmet of Horror is structured according to the internet exchanges of the twenty-first century, yet instilled with the figures and narratives of classical mythology. It is a labyrinthine examination of epistemological uncertainty that radically reinvents the myth of Theseus and the Minotaur for an age where information is abundant but knowledge seems ultimately unattainable.

The Blue Lantern (Paperback, Main): Victor Pelevin The Blue Lantern (Paperback, Main)
Victor Pelevin; Translated by Andrew Bromfield
R266 R226 Discovery Miles 2 260 Save R40 (15%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

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'.

Clay Machine-Gun (Paperback, Main): Victor Pelevin Clay Machine-Gun (Paperback, Main)
Victor Pelevin
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R300 Discovery Miles 3 000 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

An intellectually dazzling and hilarious fantasy about identity and Russian history, and a spectacular elaboration of Buddhist philosphy, The Clay Machine-Gun confirms Victor Pelevin as 'one of the brightest stars in the Russian literary firmament' Observer. 'Victor Pelevin is the future of the Russian novel. His satires take the temperature of post-Soviet Russia, in all its amoral, dystopian chaos.With his fusion of oriental and sci-fi, there's no mistaking Pelevin's place in the absurdist pantheon alongside Gogol and Bulgakov.' Independent.

The Hall of the Singing Caryatids (Paperback): Victor Pelevin The Hall of the Singing Caryatids (Paperback)
Victor Pelevin; Translated by Andrew Bromfield
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R253 Discovery Miles 2 530 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

After auditioning for the part as a singing geisha at a dubious bar, Lena and eleven other "lucky" girls are sent to work at a posh underground nightclub reserved exclusively for Russia's upper-crust elite. They are to be a sideshow attraction to the rest of the club's entertainment, and are billed as the "famous singing caryatids." Things only get weirder from there. Secret ointments, praying mantises, sexual escapades, and grotesque murder are quickly ushered into the plot. The Russian literary master Victor Pelevin holds nothing back, and The Hall of the Singing Caryatids, his most recent story to be translated into English, is sure to make you squirm in your seat with utter delight.

Babylon (Paperback, Main): Victor Pelevin Babylon (Paperback, Main)
Victor Pelevin 2
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R299 R231 Discovery Miles 2 310 Save R68 (23%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

As a poet, Tartarsky is a failure. As a copywriter for one of Moscow's biggest advertising firms he makes $2,000 in ten minutes - and that's before the cocaine kicks in. But as Tartarsky speeds through a surreal world of PR mercenaries, back-door deals and Zen Buddhism, he begins to suspect the disturbing truth behind it all - as suggested to him by the disembodied voice of Che Guevara. Babylon confirms Victor Pelevin's reputation as the funniest and sharpest observer of the chaos and absurdity of post-Soviet Russian life.

The Helmet Of Horror (Paperback, Main): Victor Pelevin The Helmet Of Horror (Paperback, Main)
Victor Pelevin; Translated by Andrew Bromfield 2
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R298 R240 Discovery Miles 2 400 Save R58 (19%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

When Ariadne helped Theseus escape the Minotaur's labyrinth with the aid of a ball of thread, she led the way for the bewildered victims of a twenty-first century minotaur. Trapped in an endless maze of Internet chatrooms, a group of mystified strangers find themselves assigned obscure aliases and commanded by the Helmet of Horror, the Minotaur himself. As they fumble their way back to reality through a mesmerising world of abundant information but little knowledge, we are forced to wonder - can technology itself be anything more than a myth?

S.N.U.F.F. (Paperback): Victor Pelevin S.N.U.F.F. (Paperback)
Victor Pelevin; Translated by Andrew Bromfield 1
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R523 R431 Discovery Miles 4 310 Save R92 (18%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Damilola Karpov is a pilot. Living in Byzantium, a huge sky city floating above the land of Urkaine, he makes his living as a drone pilot - capable of being a cameraman who records the events unfolding in Urkaine or, with the weapons aboard his drone, of making a newsworthy event happen for his employers: 'Big Byz Media'. His recordings are known as S.N.U.F.F.: Special Newsreel/Universal Feature Film. S.N.U.F.F. is a superb post-apocalyptic novel, exploring the conflict between the nation of Urkaine, its causes and its relationship with the city 'Big Byz' above. Contrasting poverty and luxury, low and high technology, barbarity and civilisation - while asking questions about the nature of war, the media, entertainment and humanity.

Omon Ra (Paperback): Victor Pelevin Omon Ra (Paperback)
Victor Pelevin; Translated by Andrew Bromfield
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R362 R302 Discovery Miles 3 020 Save R60 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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."

The Sacred Book of the Werewolf - A Novel (Paperback): Victor Pelevin The Sacred Book of the Werewolf - A Novel (Paperback)
Victor Pelevin; Translated by Andrew Bromfield
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R530 R467 Discovery Miles 4 670 Save R63 (12%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The world's first Zen Buddhist paranormal romance?published to coincide with Halloween
One of the most progressive writers at work today, Victor Pelevin's comic inventiveness has won him comparisons to Kafka, Calvino, and Gogol, and "Time" has described him as a ?psychedelic Nabokov for the cyberage.? In "The Sacred Book of the Werewolf," a smash success in Russia and Pelevin's first novel in six years, paranormal meets transcendental with a splash of satire as A Hu-Li, a two-thousand-year-old shape-shifting werefox from ancient China meets her match in Alexander, a Wagner-addicted werewolf who's the key figure in Russia's Big Oil. Both a supernatural love story and an outrageously funny send-up of modern Russia, this stunning and ingenious work of the imagination is the sharpest novel to date from Russia's most gifted literary malcontent.

Buddha's Little Finger (Paperback): Victor Pelevin Buddha's Little Finger (Paperback)
Victor Pelevin; Translated by Andrew Bromfield
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R528 R465 Discovery Miles 4 650 Save R63 (12%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Russian novelist Victor Pelevin is rapidly establishing himself as one of the most brilliant young writers at work today. His comic inventiveness and mind-bending talent prompted Time magazine to proclaim him a "psychedelic Nabokov for the cyber-age." In his third novel, Buddha's Little Finger, Pelevin has created an intellectually dazzling tale about identity and Russian history, as well as a spectacular elaboration of Buddhist philosophy. Moving between events of the Russian Civil War of 1919 and the thoughts of a man incarcerated in a contemporary Moscow psychiatric hospital, Buddha's Little Finger is a work of demonic absurdism by a writer who continues to delight and astonish.

Empire V - The Prince of Hamlet (Paperback): Victor Pelevin Empire V - The Prince of Hamlet (Paperback)
Victor Pelevin; Translated by Anthony Phillips 1
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R332 R271 Discovery Miles 2 710 Save R61 (18%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Roman thought he'd found the perfect opportunity to rebel. He may have been wrong. He awakens strapped to a set of parallel bars in a richly appointed sitting room, and begins a conversation with a masked man which will change his life. His world has been a facade - one which the mysterious Brahma is about to tear away. A stunning novel about the real world, and about the hidden chanels of power behind the scenes, EMPIRE V is a post-modern satirical novel exploring the cults and corruption of politics, banking and power. And not only are these cults difficult to join - it turns out they may be impossible to leave . . .

Homo Zapiens (Paperback, New): Victor Pelevin Homo Zapiens (Paperback, New)
Victor Pelevin; Translated by Andrew Bromfield
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R522 R459 Discovery Miles 4 590 Save R63 (12%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The collapse of the Soviet Union has opened up a huge consumer market, but how do you sell things to a generation that grew up with just one type of cola? When Tatarsky, a frustrated poet, takes a job as an advertising copywriter, he finds he has a talent for putting distinctively Russian twists on Western-style ads. But his success leads him into a surreal world of spin doctors, gangsters, drug trips, and the spirit of Che Guevera, who, by way of a Ouija board, communicates theories of consumer theology. A bestseller in Russia, Homo Zapiens displays the biting absurdist satire that has gained Victor Pelevin superstar status among today's Russian youth, disapproval from the conservative Moscow literary world, and critical acclaim worldwide.

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