The Sacred Book of the Werewolf

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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 09/01/2009
ISBN: 9780143116035
Pages: 352
Weight: 0.53lbs
Size: 7.72h x 5.12w x 0.61d
Award: Rossica Translation Prize - Finalist

Review Citations: New York Times Book Review 11/01/2009 pg. 20