The Sacred Book of the Werewolf

By: Victor Pelevin, Andrew Bromfield (Translator)

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Paperback | 1 September 2009

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The world's first Zen Buddhist paranormal romance-published to coincide with Halloween
One of the most progressive writers at work today, Victor Pelevin's comic inventiveness has won him comparisons to Kafka, Calvino, and Gogol, and "Time" has described him as a "psychedelic Nabokov for the cyberage." In "The Sacred Book of the Werewolf," a smash success in Russia and Pelevin's first novel in six years, paranormal meets transcendental with a splash of satire as A Hu-Li, a two-thousand-year-old shape-shifting werefox from ancient China meets her match in Alexander, a Wagner-addicted werewolf who's the key figure in Russia's Big Oil. Both a supernatural love story and an outrageously funny send-up of modern Russia, this stunning and ingenious work of the imagination is the sharpest novel to date from Russia's most gifted literary malcontent.

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"Racy, thought-provoking, and perverse. . . . A joy to read." -"The New York Times Book Review"

"Wondrously written, amazingly fun." -"San Francisco Chronicle" a Full of tour de force passages, and full of sex, the novel yet succeeds in not being one of those showy, sexy, cold-hearted books. The fantasy is fueled by passion, the humor by grief.a aUrsula K. Le Guin

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