VICTOR PELEVIN

A. Huli, the heroine of Victor Pelevin''s latest book, is beautiful, slender and curiously foxlike. She lives in Moscow and works as a classy prostitute in the city''s premier hotels. But when a client goes inexplicably and fatally berserk at the sight of her in his luxury suite, A. Huli has to leave in a hurry. She decides to explore new avenues and place an ad on the internet - and that''s when the trouble really starts. Victor Pelevin''s new work of fiction is both a supernatural love story and an outrageously funny satirical portrait of modern Russia. With all his characteristic humour and metaphysical ambition, Pelevin introduces us to an unforgettable cast of perverts, former KGB agents, oil tycoons and amorous werewolves.

A. Huli, the heroine of Victor Pelevins latest book, is beautiful, slender and curiously foxlike. She lives in Moscow and works as a classy prostitute in the citys premier hotels. But when a client goes inexplicably and fatally berserk at the sight of her in his luxury suite, A. Huli has to leasve in a hurry. A. Huli, la heroina de la ultima novela de Victor Pelevin, es hermosa, esbelta, y tiene un aspecto curiosamente vulpino. Vive en Moscu y trabaja como prostituta de alto standing en los hoteles mas lujosos de la ciudad. Pero cuando un cliente entra en un inesperado y fatal estado de furia ante sus propios ojos en su suite de lujo, A. Huli debe marcharse atropelladamente.

Divertida, ingeniosa y caleidoscópica sátira de la Rusia actual con la prosa desbordante y fragmentaria de Pelevin, que ya se ha convertido en todo un autor de culto. En esta ocasión el poeta peterburgues Pyotr Voyd se encuentra inesperadamente en el cuerpo del legendario guerrillero Chapaev en la guerra civil rusa de 1919. Despues de eso, ¿Por que, de repente, Pyotr se despierta en un centro psiquiatrico en el año 1990 en Moscu? ¿Que tiene que ver Arnold Schawarzenegger en este lio? Una novela realmente diferente y original.Victor Pelevin es una de las voces rusas mas reconocidas y valoradas en su pais y a nivel internacional. Ha recibido innumerables premios literarios: El Gran anillo, Broker, Caracol de bronce, Interpresskon, Peregrino.

Sentados frente a sendas pantallas de ordenador, ocho jóvenes intentan comunicarse entre sí. Con el ir y venir de los mensajes, surge la sospecha de que alguien, alguna fuerza oculta, manipula las misivas y distorsiona los contenidos, provocando una enorme confusion que les impide conocer su verdadera identidad. Confinados en un espacio fisico limitado, los jovenes parecen victimas de un laberinto cibernetico donde es casi imposible distinguir entre la realidad y su representacion virtual. Bajo el asedio de Asterisco, un personaje misterioso cuyo yelmo con cuernos de toro es una suerte de maquina productora de realidades, los jovenes se debaten para volver al mundo real. Viktor Pelevin, el escritor mas irreverente, audaz y leido de la literatura rusa poscomunista, convierte la red en un laberinto posmoderno, una metafora sobre la vida y sus dilemas, embarcando al lector en un viaje delirante, impregnado de humor surrealista.

Roman thought hed found the perfect opportunity to rebel. He may have been wrong.He awakens strapped to a set of parallel bars in a richly appointed sitting room, and begins a conversation with a masked man which will change his life. His world has been a facade - one which the mysterious Brahma is about to tear away.A stunning novel about the real world, and about the hidden chanels of power behind the scenes, EMPIRE V is a post-modern satirical novel exploring the cults and corruption of politics, banking and power. And not only are these cults difficult to join - it turns out they may be impossible to leave . . .

The collapse of the Soviet Union has opened up a huge consumer market, but how do you sell things to a generation that grew up with just one type of cola? When Tatarsky, a frustrated poet, takes a job as an advertising copywriter, he finds he has a talent for putting distinctively Russian twists on Western-style ads. But his success leads him into a surreal world of spin doctors, gangsters, drug trips, and the spirit of Che Guevera, who, by way of a Ouija board, communicates theories of consumer theology. A bestseller in Russia, Homo Zapiens displays the biting absurdist satire that has gained Victor Pelevin superstar status among todays Russian youth, disapproval from the conservative Moscow literary world, and critical acclaim worldwide.

Russian novelist Victor Pelevin is rapidly establishing himself as one of the most brilliant young writers at work today. His comic inventiveness and mind-bending talent prompted Time magazine to proclaim him a "psychedelic Nabokov for the cyber-age." In his third novel, Buddhas Little Finger, Pelevin has created an intellectually dazzling tale about identity and Russian history, as well as a spectacular elaboration of Buddhist philosophy. Moving between events of the Russian Civil War of 1919 and the thoughts of a man incarcerated in a contemporary Moscow psychiatric hospital, Buddhas Little Finger is a work of demonic absurdism by a writer who continues to delight and astonish.

The world?s first Zen Buddhist paranormal romance?published to coincide with HalloweenOne of the most progressive writers at work today, Victor Pelevin?s comic inventiveness has won him comparisons to Kafka, Calvino, and Gogol, and Time has described him as a ?psychedelic Nabokov for the cyberage.? In The Sacred Book of the Werewolf, a smash success in Russia and Pelevin?s first novel in six years, paranormal meets transcendental with a splash of satire as A Hu-Li, a two-thousand-year-old shape-shifting werefox from ancient China meets her match in Alexander, a Wagner-addicted werewolf who?s the key figure in Russia?s Big Oil. Both a supernatural love story and an outrageously funny send-up of modern Russia, this stunning and ingenious work of the imagination is the sharpest novel to date from Russia?s most gifted literary malcontent.

Damilola Karpov is a pilot. Living in Byzantium, a huge sky city floating above the land of Urkaine, he makes his living as a drone pilot - capable of being a cameraman who records the events unfolding in Urkaine or, with the weapons aboard his drone, of making a newsworthy event happen for his employers: Big Byz Media.His recordings are known as S.N.U.F.F.: Special Newsreel/Universal Feature Film.S.N.U.F.F. is a superb post-apocalyptic novel, exploring the conflict between the nation of Urkaine, its causes and its relationship with the city Big Byz above. Contrasting poverty and luxury, low and high technology, barbarity and civilisation - while asking questions about the nature of war, the media, entertainment and humanity.