Vladimir Sorokin

Day of the Oprichnik

Futuristic novel following an officer enforcing totalitarian rule in Russia

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Vladimir Sorokin
Vladimir Sorokin

Russian author whose transgressive and conceptually violent fiction attacks Soviet and Russian cultural mythology. The Queue, Blue Lard, and Day of the Oprichnik have established him as Russia's most provocative contemporary novelist.

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