The Sacred Book of the Werewolf

Pelevin; Victor

ISBN 10: 1433246775 ISBN 13: 9781433246777

Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks, Inc., 2008

Synopsis

A stunning and ingenious work of imagination, both a supernatural love story and an outrageously funny and satirical portrait of modern Russia.

About this title

About the Author:

Victor Pelevin is the author of A Werewolf Problem in Central Russia and Other Stories, The Life of Insects, Omon Ra, The Yellow Arrow, and The Blue Lantern, a collection of short stories that won the Russian "Little Booker" Prize. His novel Buddha's Little Finger was shortlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. He was named by the New Yorker as one of the best European writers under thirty-five and by the Observer newspaper in London as one of "twenty-one writers to watch for the twenty-first century."

From AudioFile:

This unusual and thoughtful contemporary fantasy features A. Hu-Li, an ancient werefox in the shape of a teenage girl who works in Russia as a prostitute. She creates erotic, hypnotic illusions for her clients with her tail and feeds off the sexual energy they generate. Cassandra Campbell deftly inhabits the character of the sensual, cynical, playful, and lonely A. Hu-Li as she seeks enlightenment and unexpectedly finds love with a werewolf. Campbell also makes a wonderfully subtle point; her narration and conversations with other werefoxes are spoken in an American accent, but her dialogue to other Russians is delivered in a Russian accent, indicating that A. Hu-Li's true self remains hidden from the outside world. A.B.G. © AudioFile 2009, Portland, Maine

About this edition

• Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks, Inc.
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1433246775
• ISBN 13: 9781433246777
• Binding: Audio CD
• Editor: Reader: To Be Announced