{"product_id":"a-werewolf-problem-in-central-victor-pelevin-9780811218603","title":"A Werewolf Problem in Central Russia: And Other Stories","description":"Victor Pelevin is \"the only young Russian novelist to have made an impression in the West\" (\u003cem\u003eVillage Voice\u003c\/em\u003e). \u003cem\u003eA Werewolf Problem in Central Russia\u003c\/em\u003e, the second of Pelevin's Russian Booker Prize-winning short story collections, continues his Sputnik-like rise. The writers to whom he is frequently compared--Kafka, Bulgakov, Philip K. Dick, and Joseph Heller--are all deft fabulists, who find fuel for their fires in society's deadening protocol.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"At the very start of the third semester, in one of the lectures on Marxism-Leninism, Nikita Dozakin made a remarkable discovery,\" begins the story \"Sleep.\" Nikita's discovery is that everyone around him, from parents to television talk-show hosts, is actually asleep. In \"Vera Pavlova's Ninth Dream,\" the attendant in a public toilet finds that her researches into solipsism have dire and diabolical consequences. In the title story, a young Muscovite, Sasha, stumbles upon a group of people in the forest who can transform themselves into wolves. As \u003cem\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e noted, \"Pelevin's allegories are reminiscent of children's fairy tales in their fantastic depictions of worlds within worlds, solitary souls tossed helplessly among them.\" Pelevin--whom \u003cem\u003eSpin\u003c\/em\u003e called \"a master absurdist, a brilliant satirist of things Soviet, but also of things human\"--carries us in \u003cem\u003eA Werewolf Problem in Central Russia\u003c\/em\u003e to a land of great sublimity and black comic brilliance.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Victor Pelevin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0811218600\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780811218603\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New Directions Publishing Corporation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/01\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.53lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.10h x 5.10w x 0.59d","brand":"Victor Pelevin","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44042957750527,"sku":"9780811218603","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_b3880d2b-d814-4d7b-a151-967e83cf3ab9.jpg?v=1684964490","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/a-werewolf-problem-in-central-victor-pelevin-9780811218603","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}