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LEADER: 02949cam a22004098i 4500
001 2015010964
003 DLC
005 20150417091456.0
008 150414s2015 nyu 000 1 eng
010 $a 2015010964
020 $a9780374114374 (hardback)
020 $z9780374709396 (e-book)
040 $aDLC$beng$erda$cDLC
041 1 $aeng$hrus
042 $apcc
050 00 $aPG3488.O66$bM4813 2015
066 $c(N
082 00 $a891.73/5$223
084 $aFIC019000$aFIC014000$2bisacsh
100 1 $aSorokin, Vladimir,$d1955-
240 10 $aMetelʹ.$lEnglish
245 14 $aThe blizzard :$ba novel /$cVladimir Sorokin ; translated by Jamey Gambrell.
250 $aFirst American edition.
263 $a1512
264 1 $aNew York :$bFarrar, Straus and Giroux,$c2015.
300 $apages cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
520 $a"A dazzling, utterly distinctive saga from Russia's most celebrated-and most controversial-novelist. Vladimir Sorokin is one of Russia's most popular and provocative novelists. In his scabrous dystopian satire Day of the Oprichnik, American readers were introduced to his distinctive style, which combines an edgy avant-garde sensibility with a fondness for the absurd and even the grotesque-all in service of bringing out stinging truths about life in modern-day Russia. In The Blizzard, we are immersed in the atmosphere of a nineteenth-century Russia. Garin, a district doctor, is desperately trying to reach the village of Dolgoye, where a mysterious epidemic is turning people into zombies. He carries with him a vaccine that will prevent the spread of this terrible disease but is stymied in his travels by an all-consuming snowstorm, an impenetrable blizzard that turns a drive that should last only a few hours into a voyage of days and, finally, a journey into eternity. The Blizzard dramatizes a timeless metaphysical predicament. The characters in this nearly postapocalyptic world are constantly in motion and yet somehow trapped and frozen-spending day and night fighting their way through the storm on an expedition filled with extraordinary encounters, dangerous escapades, torturous imaginings, and amorous adventures. Hypnotic, fascinating, and richly descriptive, The Blizzard is a seminal work from one of the most inventive writers working today"--$cProvided by publisher.
520 $a"In this short, surreal twist on the classic Russian novel, a doctor travels to a distant village to save its citizens from an epidemic, but a metaphysical snowstorm gets in his way"--$cProvided by publisher.
655 0 $aDystopias$vFiction.
655 0 $aPsychological fiction.
650 7 $aFICTION / Literary.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aFICTION / Historical.$2bisacsh
700 1 $aGambrell, Jamey,$etranslator.
880 $6546-00/(N$aPublished in Russian under the title Метель. .