With the cold calculation of a surgeon, the inquisitiveness of a discoverer and the imagination of an artist, Vladimir Sorokin dissects reality, bringing to light the main contradictions and philosophical dilemmas of modern society. How do new myths appear and old ones change, what influence does classical literature and, more broadly, culture have on our lives, where are the boundaries between...

The new novel by Vladimir Sorokin is a look at the future of Europe, which, despite the dramatic changes in the world and human structure, seems very understandable and real. The recognizable and the unrecognizable coexist peacefully on the bright tapestry of the New Middle Ages, populated by dog-heads and centaurs, small people and giants, crusaders and Orthodox communists. Infinitely...

Comrades, who is the last? A cult novel by one of the brightest and most scandalous contemporary writers. People of different social classes, different political views, different beliefs and preferences will meet in a multi-kilometer queue. Vladimir Sorokin's novel 'The Queue' has something that is characteristic of all the great works of world literature: over time, it not only did not lose...

The collection ‘Monoclone’ includes twelve stories, complex and multifaceted, like life itself: in them truth is intertwined with fiction, pornographic with lyrical, realistic with absurdist, sincere with shocking. Sorokin's stories, like his great prose, are truly polyphonic: his characters are living people, endowed with their own voice and subconscious, into the study of the depths of which...

Gag, the Fighting Cat, a teenager, a fighting unit capable of dealing with any conceivable and unimaginable surprise and turning it to the honor and glory of His Highness the Duke of Alai and his house... A resident of the planet Giganda, where war has been raging for years, he would have perished in battle if members of the Earth expedition hadn't arrived in time. Will the progressors from the...

Thousands of important experiments are conducted daily on Rainbow, the most important of which is a new method of spatial travel – ‘Null-T.’ But one day, the experiment goes awry, resulting in a gigantic, devastating Wave, sweeping all life from the planet's surface. The ship ‘Tariel’ can only take a limited number of passengers. Who must be rescued first? The collection also features the...

Former cosmonaut Ivan Zhilin, familiar to readers from the stories ‘The Road to Amalthea’ and ‘Interns,’ arrives in a European resort town to uncover the dealers and distributors of the dangerous drug Slobodan. Here, it seems, a true World of Abundance has arrived—people have what they've been yearning for: material wealth, plenty of free time, and accessible entertainment. However, behind the...