It all begins in the ‘Altai Cedars’ sanatorium, where Doctor Garin, rested, well-fed and received titanium prostheses - instead of the frostbitten legs in the story ‘Blizzard’. The sanatorium treats eight special patients, who are instantly recognizable as the rulers of the world’s largest powers: Angela, who barks at everyone, the sophisticated but unbalanced Emmanuel, the sleek girl-lover Silvio, who repeats just one phrase ‘it’s not me,’ Vladimir. True, these patients do not look like people, but like medium-sized buttocks with eyes, mouths and arms sticking out at the sides. In this company, Doctor Garin will set off on his incredible journey through a strange post-apocalyptic world. ‘Doctor Garin’ is perhaps the most unpredictable and wildly twisted novel Sorokin ever wrote.