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The Life of Insects

The Life of Insects

by Andrew Bromfield (Translator), Andrew Bromfield (Translator), Victor Pelevin (Author)

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    Paperback 1999

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Synopsis

A darkly humorous novel set in a crumbling Black Sea resort, featuring a cast of characters who exist simultaneously as human beings (racketeers, mystics, drug addicts and prostitutes) and as insects. By the author of THE BLUE LANTERN and OMON RA.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 192
 Edition: Main
 Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 19 Apr 1999
ISBN 10: 0571194052
ISBN 13: 9780571194056
Book Overview: In 1993 Pelevin's collection of short stories, The Blue Lantern , won the Russian Little Booker Prize for the best work of fiction by a Russian writer.

Author Bio
Born in 1962 in Moscow, Victor Pelevin has swiftly been recognised as the leading Russian novelist of the new generation. Before studying at Moscow's Gorky Institute of Literature, he worked in a number of jobs, including as an engineer on a project to protect MiG fighter planes from insect interference in tropical conditions. One of the few novelists today who writes seriously about what is happening in contemporary Russia, he has, according to the New York Times, 'the kind of mordant, astringent turn of mind that in the pre-glasnost era landed writers in psychiatric hospitals or exile'.$$$His work has been translated into fifteen languages and his novels Omon Ra, The Life of Insects, The Clay Machine-Gun and Babylon, and two collections of short stories, The Blue Lantern (winner of the Russian 'Little Booker' Prize) and A Werewolf Problem in Central Russia, have been published in English to great acclaim.$$$Victor Pelevin was selected by the New Yorker as one of the best European writers under the age of thirty-five.