Day of the Oprichnik

ISBN-13: 9780241355114 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 208 str.

Vladimir Sorokin

Opis

Moscow 2028: Andrei Danilovich Komiaga, oprichnik, member of the czars inner circle of trusted courtiers, rouses himself from a drunken stupor and prepares for another day of debauchery, violence, terror and beauty. In this New Russia, futuristic technology combine with the draconian world of Ivan the Terrible to create a dystopia chillingly akin to reality. Over the twenty-four-hour span of the novel, Komiaga will rape, pillage and torture, in the name of the czar he fears and adores. Shimmering with invention, fierce social commentary and razor-sharp wit, Day of the Oprichnik imagines a near future too disturbing to contemplate and too close to reality to ignore.