Day of the Oprichnik

By: Vladimir Sorokin, Jamey Gambrell (Translator)

Hardcover | 15 March 2011 | Edition Number 1

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Morning in Moscow. Andrei Danilovich Komyaga wakes from a drunken stupor to the sound of a whip, a scream, a groan. It's only his ringtone--and this is just another day in the life of an oprichnik, one of the reconstituted nobility who rule this, the new New Russia. In this empire cell phones coexist with practices drawn from the draconian codes of Ivan the Terrible. For Russia has leaped back in time. All borders to the West are closed. The free press has been banished. All free enterprise has been appropriated to the state in the person of "Papa," a ruler who may be--for all we know--Vladimir Putin in twenty years' time. In this retro future, Vladimir Sorokin gives us a day with Komyaga and his band of merry thugs, whose main duty and pleasure is to suppress any threat to Papa through acts of spectacular violence.
"Day of the Oprichnik "is a brief, disturbing, unexpectedly hilarious glimpse of a future straight out of the history books or CNN. It is also a defining look at the extraordinary brilliance, wit, and madness of the man described by Keith Gessen (in "The New York Review of Books") as the "only real prose writer, and resident genius" of late-Soviet fiction.

Industry Reviews

Praise for "Day of the Oprichnik "and Vladimir Sorokin "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." --Gary Shteyngart, 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." --Garry Kasparov, "Time ""Might this be something of a Sorokin moment in the Anglophone world? Is the pope German?" --Stephen Kotkin, "The New York Times Book Review ""[A] take-no-prisoners satire from one of Russia's literary stars . . . Vladimir Sorokin's lurid, wildly inventive"Day of the Oprichnik" is a rowdy critique of Russia's drift toward authoritarianism." --Taylor Antrim, "Newsweek ""Sorokin's book is a sleek and darting fish . . . "Day of the Oprichnik" . . . should attract the readership [Sorokin] deserves . . . He has a fearless imagination willing to be put to most grotesque and energetic use." --Alexander Nazaryan, "The New Republic ""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." --Tony Wood, " London Review of Books """Day of the Oprichnik "is Vladimir Sorokin's funniest and most accessible book since "The Queue." The KGB orgy scene at the end is worthy of the great shit-eating scenes of his earlier work." --Keith Gessen, author of "All the Sad Young Literary Men ""Sorokin's novel packs a heft

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