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Sugar Kremlin/ Vladimir Sorokin ; translated from the Russian by Max Lawton; frontispieces by Yaroslav Schwarzstein.
Van Pelt Library PG3488.O66 S2513 2025
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sorokin, Vladimir, 1955- author.
- Standardized Title:
- Sakharnyĭ Kreml' English
- Сахарный кремль English
- Language:
- English
- Russian
- Subjects (All):
- Despotism--Russia (Federation)--Fiction.
- Despotism.
- Gifts--Fiction.
- Gifts.
- Russian fiction--21st century.
- Russian fiction.
- Russia--Fiction.
- Russia.
- Genre:
- Dystopian fiction.
- Political fiction.
- Black humor.
- Physical Description:
- 270 pages : frontispieces ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Dallas, TX : Dalkey Archive Press, 2025.
- Language Note:
- In English, translated from the Russian.
- Summary:
- The Sugar Kremlin is the follow-up to Vladimir Sorokin's Day of the Oprichnik, taking place in the same New Medieval universe over the course of fifteen chapters that all return to the object of the title: replicas of the Moscow Kremlin made of sugar. Thousands of these creations are given away to children during the holidays, then make their way through each stratum of Russian society. We follow the trajectories of these candied gifts from the hands of harried paupers to secret political dissidents, from torture-obsessed civil servants to sex workers in a nearby bordello...
- ISBN:
- 1628975784
- 9781628975789
- OCLC:
- 1452502828
- Publisher Number:
- 90102866277
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