Monday Starts on Saturday (MP3 CD) (ISBN-13: 9781538459812)

Sasha, a young computer programmer from Leningrad, is driving north to meet some friends for a nature vacation. He picks up a couple of hitchhikers, who persuade him to take a job at the National Institute for the Technology of Witchcraft and Thaumaturgy.The adventures Sasha has in the largely dysfunctional institute involve all sorts of magical beings--a wish-granting fish, a tree mermaid, a cat who can remember only the beginnings of stories, a dream-interpreting sofa, a motorcycle that can zoom into the imagined future, a lazy dog-sized mosquito--along with a variety of wizards (including Merlin), vampires, and officers.First published in Russia in 1965, Monday Starts on Saturday has become the most popular Strugatsky novel in their homeland. Like the works of Gogol and Kafka, it tackles the nature of institutions--here focusing on one devoted to discovering and perfecting human happiness. By turns wildly imaginative, hilarious, and disturbing, Monday Starts on Saturday is a comic masterpiece by two of the world's greatest science-fiction writers.

Author: Arkady Strugatsky, Boris Strugatsky
ISBN-10: 1538459817
ISBN-13: 9781538459812
Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks
Language: English
Published: 10/01/2017
Format: MP3 CD
Weight: 0.25lbs
Size: 6.70h x 5.30w x 0.60d