Finalist, Russian Booker, 1992
"Generously spiced with filthy and vulgar terms... an absurdist work, a veritable encyclopedia of... the bizarre." -Liza Rozovsky
"Sorokin's sudden exposure is long overdue as he is probably both the most acclaimed and the most controversial author in Russia today, hailed by critics as a 'living classic' even as his subject matter takes the tradition of Russian grotesque into areas Gogol or even the Stalin-era absurdist Daniil Kharms never dared venture." -Daniel Kalder, Publishing Perspectives
