Andrew Bromfield, Author, Victor Pelevin, Author . Translated by Andrew Bromfield. New Directions $12.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-8112-1543-5
Originally published in 1994, Pelevin's second Booker Prize–winning short fiction collection brilliantly and poignantly satirizes the economic, cultural and spiritual decay of Mother Russia under Communism. Kafka, one of Pelevin's more
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Victor Pelevin, trans. from the Russian by Anthony Phillips. Gollancz, $13.99 trade paper (387p) ISBN 978-1-4732-1308-1
Author Pelevin’s newest erudite and fantastical take on postmodernist science fiction and horror (following S.N.U.F.F.) follows a young man as he is transformed into a vampire. On a lark, seeing a note sketched on the sidewalk with a pointing arrow,
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Victor Pelevin, Author, Andrew Bromfield, Translator , trans. from the Russian by Andrew Bromfield. New Directions/Bibelot $9 (101p) ISBN 978-0-8112-1491-9
Young Russian author Pelevin (Omon Ra; The Yellow Arrow) demonstrates that Generation X is more of a post–Soviet Russian phenomenon than anything experienced by the youth of Western democracies. In this quartet of phantasmagorical short...
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Victor Pelevin, Author, Andrew Bromfield, Translator , trans. from the Russian by Andrew Bromfield. Canongate $18.95 (274p) ISBN 978-1-84195-760-9
In the Greek myth, Ariadne, the daughter of Minos of Crete, falls in love with Theseus and helps him kill the fearsome Minotaur, a half-bull, half-human monster trapped in the center of a vast labyrinth. Armed with the sword that she supplies and...
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Victor Pelevin, Author, Andrew Bromfield, Translator , trans. from the Russian by Andrew Bromfield. Viking $25.95 (335p) ISBN 978-0-670-01988-5
Russian novelist Pelevin's chaotic latest examines contemporary Russia as viewed through the eyes of A. Hu-li, a 2,000-year-old werefox who is able to transform into a beautiful nymphet. The opening chapter is both an introduction to werefoxes...
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Victor Pelevin, Author, Andrew Bromfield, Translator New Directions Publishing Corporation $14.95 (96p) ISBN 978-0-8112-1355-4
In a starred review PW wrote that this Russian novella ""fuses pungent, visceral imagery reminiscent of Maxim Gorky with an absurdist comic outlook."" (May)
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Victor Pelevin, Author, Andrew Bromfield, Translator New Directions Publishing Corporation $22.95 (179p) ISBN 978-0-8112-1370-7
Young, popular and considered very hip, Little Russian Booker Prize winner Pelevin has already made a name for himself among the crop of writers who have grown out of post-Soviet Russia. In the first of a two-volume collection of his short stories,...
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Victor Pelevin, Author, Andrew Bromfield, Translator New Directions Publishing Corporation $11.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-8112-1324-0
While the Soviet space program, that repository of Party and national pride, provides Pelevin the setting for his satire of Communist-era Russia (see Omon Ra, above), he takes on contemporary Russia by employing one exquisite metaphor for post-Soviet
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Victor Pelevin, Author, Andrew Bromfield, Translator, Urgan Jambon Tulku, VII, Preface by Viking Books $25.95 (335p) ISBN 978-0-670-89168-9
The ambitious, time-traveling scenario of Russian writer Pelevin's third novel finds the aptly named poet Pyotr Void tumbling between two distinct nightmares. In the first he is serving as commissar to the legendary Bolshevik commander, Chapaev,...
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Victor Pelevin, Author, Andrew Bromfield, Translator, Viktor Pelevin, Author , trans. from the Russian by Andrew Bromfield. Viking $24.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-670-03066-8
Pelevin, the bard of the post-Soviet era, returns here with another absurdist novel detailing the crazed Russian collision with capitalism. This isn't new ground for him; as in his previous books (Buddha's Little Finger; Omon Ra; and others),
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Victor Pelevin, Author, Andrew Bromfield, Translator, Viktor Pelevin, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $21 (0p) ISBN 978-0-374-22592-6
A rising star in the Russian literary firmament (see The Yellow Arrow, below), Pelevin, winner of the 1993 Russian Booker Prize for short stories, has written a parody of life under Communism refracted through the prism of the Soviet space program....
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