Omon Ra

Omon Ra - Paperback

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Omon Ra - Paperback

Omon Ra - Paperback

by Victor Pelevin
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by Victor Pelevin (Author), Andrew Bromfield (Translator)

Victor Pelevin's novel Omon Ra has been widely praised for its poetry and its wickedness, a novel in line with the great works of Gogol and Bulgakov: "full of the ridiculous and the sublime," says The Observer [London]. Omon is chosen to be trained in the Soviet space program the fulfillment of his lifelong dream. However, he enrolls only to encounter the terrifying absurdity of Soviet protocol and its backward technology: a bicycle-powered moonwalker; the outrageous Colonel Urgachin ("a kind of Sovier Dr. Strangelove"--The New York Times); and a one-way assignment to the moon. The New Yorker proclaimed: "Omon's adventure is like a rocket firing off its various stages--each incident is more jolting and propulsively absurd than the one before."

Number of Pages: 154
Dimensions: 0.43 x 8.02 x 5.13 IN
Publication Date: February 17, 1998
ISBN9780811213646
Author Victor Pelevin
PublisherNew Directions Publishing Corporation
GenreLiterature
FormatPaperback
PublishedFebruary 1998
LanguageENG- English
Pages154
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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About Victor Pelevin

Victor Pelevin is the author of A Werewolf Problem in Central Russia and Other Stories, The Life of Insects, Omon Ra, The Yellow Arrow, and The Blue Lantern, a collection of short stories that won the Russian "Little Booker" Prize. His novel Buddha's Little Finger was shortlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. He was named by The New Yorker as one of the best European writers under thirty-five and by The Observer newspaper in London as one of "twenty-one writers to watch for the 21st century."

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