Victor Pelevin

The Hall of the Singing Caryatids

Buch

After auditioning for the part as a singing geisha at a dubious bar, Lena and eleven other lucky girls are sent to work at a posh underground nightclub reserved exclusively for Russia's upper-crust elite. They are to be a sideshow attraction to the rest of the club's entertainment, and are billed as the famous singing caryatids. Things only get weirder from there. Secret ointments, praying mantises, sexual escapades, and grotesque murder are quickly ushered into the plot. The Russian literary master Victor Pelevin holds nothing back, and The Hall of the Singing Caryatids, his most recent story to be translated into English, is sure to make yo… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Bromfield, Andrew (Übers.)

ISBN: 978-0-8112-1942-6
EAN: 9780811219426
Produktnummer: 19433548
Verlag: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
Seitenangabe: 96 S.
Masse: H11.7 cm x B17.8 cm x D0.9 cm 104 g
Gewicht: 104
Sonstiges: Professional & Vocational

Über den Autor

Victor Pelevin is one of Russia's most successful post-Soviet writers. He won the Russian Booker prize in 1993 Born on November 22, 1962 in Moscow, he attended the Moscow Institute of Power Engineering, and the Institute of Literature. He's now been published throughout Europe. His books include A Werewolf Problem in Central Russia, Omon Ra, The Blue Lantern, The Yellow Arrow, and The Hall of the Singing Caryatids.