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Total pages original book: 208
Includes a PDF summary of 17 pages
Duration of the summary (audio): 13M13S (3.4 MB)
Description or summary of the audiobook: It's Moscow, 2028. A scream, a moan, and a death rattle slowly pull Andrei Danilovich Komiaga out of his drunken stupor. But wait - that's just his ringtone. So begins another day in the life of an oprichnik, one of the czar's most trusted courtiers - and one of the country's most feared men. In this new New Russia, where futuristic technology and the draconian codes of Ivan the Terrible are in perfect synergy, Komiaga will attend extravagant parties, partake in brutal executions, and consume an arsenal of drugs. Vladimir Sorokin has imagined a near future both too disturbing to contemplate and too realistic to dismiss. But like all of his best work, Sorokin's new novel explodes with invention and dark humour. A startling, relentless portrait of a troubled and troubling empire, 'Day of the Oprichnik' is at once a richly imagined vision of the future and a razor-sharp diagnosis of a country in crisis.
Other categories, genre or collection: Contemporary Fiction, Political & Legal, Science Fiction