Books by Vladimir Sorokin
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review 1: This was the Russian contender for the World Cup of Literature. There were things I liked about it and things I REALLY didn't like about it. So, what I liked--I am really interested in Russian history and this was an interesting take on what Russia would be like in a tsarist reg...
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review 1: I wanted to love this book with every page I read. I thought this was a great idea for a novel spanning events from the early 20th century to the recent times touching on events across the the East and West with the focus on the sect of the Brothers and Sisters of the Light. Th...
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review 1: «День опричника» весьма актуальная книга на сегодняшний день для русского человека.В свете последней событий и вообще политики Путина за последнее десятилетие на страницах книги можно увидеть ужасающее будущее прекрасной великой страны таких писателей как Толстого, Достоевского, ...
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review 1: As much as I enjoyed reading this book...and I did, I felt that the intention of the author was stronger than what he was writing. Well that, probably unfounded feeling, left me dissatisfied and wanting to hear/read more. It's crazy, this world we live in, more so if you live or ...
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review 1: Non c'é niente da fare. I russi, nella narrativa, hanno sempre avuto una marcia in piú. Anche quando si parla di modernismo e soprattutto di postmodernismo. Ai prolissi, autoreferenziali e splendidamente superflui postmoderni americani (fatto salvo Pynchon che devo approfondire) ...
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review 1: Sorokin is not a fan of Putin and I am quite certain that there is much in this novel with which Putin would be less than happy with. After a bearded woman (transvestite Conchita Wurst) won the 2014 Eurovision Song Contest, Putin was quoted as saying that Wurst could live the lif...