Haunting, terrifying and hilarious, The Day of the Oprichnik is a dazzling novel and a fierce critique of life in the New Russia.
Vladimir Sorokin (born 1955) is the author of eleven novels, including The Blizzard, also published as a Penguin Modern Classic, The Ice Trilogy andThe Queue. His works have been translated into thirty languages and won many prizes, including the Andrei Bely Prize and the Maxim Gorky Prize. In 2013 he was a finalist for the Man Booker International Prize. He lives in Moscow.
Vladimir Sorokin [is] Russia's most inventive contemporary
author
*New York Times Book Review*
Vladimir Sorokin is one of Russia's greatest writers, and this
novel is one of his best. Day of the Oprichnik is a haunting and
terrifying vision of modern Russia projected two decades into the
future - or maybe not the future at all. A joy to read - more
entertaining, dynamic, engaging, and deeply hilarious than a
dystopian novel has any right to be
*author of Absurdistan and Super Sad True Love Story*
Anyone who wants to learn more about Russia and what could be the
outcome of [Vladimir] Putin's rule should read the book. It's dark
and dystopian, but it's a part of our life
*Time*
Compelling . . . Devastating . . . Powerful . . . In Day of the
Oprichnik, [Sorokin] combines futurological invention with
political archaism to vicious satirical effect . . . It's as if
hi-tech limbs had been grafted onto the torso of early modern
statecraft: Wolf Hall meets William Gibson
*London Review of Books*
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