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Fairy Tale
  • Published: 15 April 2027
  • ISBN: 9781837314003
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 160

Fairy Tale

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The most pleasurable novel yet from the iconoclastic Russian author: a playful, postmodern homage to classic Russian literature and fairy tales

Fourteen-year-old Ivan, survivor of a nuclear war, spends his days combing garbage dumps for sustenance and treasure. When one day he unearths a revolting but magical talisman, he is transported to an enchanted cave, inhabited by the spirits of three great Russian writers: Lev, Fyodor and Dostoyevsky. They promise to grant him three wishes - but first he must pass through three trials.

If Ivan can get through each of these trials, the spirits promise him, his old life will be restored… he will be with his family once more.
  • Published: 15 April 2027
  • ISBN: 9781837314003
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 160
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About the author

Vladimir Sorokin

Vladimir Sorokin (born 1955) is the author of eleven novels, including The Blizzard, also published as a Penguin Modern Classic, The Ice Trilogy andThe Queue. His works have been translated into thirty languages and won many prizes, including the Andrei Bely Prize and the Maxim Gorky Prize. In 2013 he was a finalist for the Man Booker International Prize. He lives in Moscow. Vladimir Sorokin (born 1955) is the author of eleven novels, including The Blizzard, also published as a Penguin Modern Classic, The Ice Trilogy and The Queue. His works have been translated into thirty languages and won many prizes, including the Andrei Bely Prize and the Maxim Gorky Prize. In 2013 he was a finalist for the Man Booker International Prize. He lives in Berlin.
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Also by Vladimir Sorokin

Blue Lard
Red Pyramid
Telluria
The Blizzard
Day of the Oprichnik
Ice Trilogy
The Queue
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Praise for Fairy Tale

His books are like entering a crazy nightmare, and I mean that as a compliment ... He was able to find the right vocabulary with which to articulate the truth.

Gary Shteyngart

His books are like entering a crazy nightmare, and I mean that as a compliment ... He was able to find the right vocabulary with which to articulate the truth.

Gary Shteyngart

Over the past 40 years, Vladimir Sorokin’s work has punctured nearly every imaginable political and social taboo in Russia ... With every attack, Sorokin has only grown bolder, and more popular.

The New York Times

Over the past 40 years, Vladimir Sorokin’s work has punctured nearly every imaginable political and social taboo in Russia ... With every attack, Sorokin has only grown bolder, and more popular.

The New York Times

Sorokin, an artist who clearly perceives both the material reality and the metaphysical Geist behind that facade, is one of the best guides available to contemporary Russia

Los Angeles Review of Books

Sorokin, an artist who clearly perceives both the material reality and the metaphysical Geist behind that facade, is one of the best guides available to contemporary Russia

Los Angeles Review of Books