9785264000058

Omon Ra

Victor Pelevin

ISBN 10: 5264000050
ISBN 13: 9785264000058
Publisher: Vagrius
Publication Date: 1999

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Editorial Reviews:

Review:

"A vigorous satire on the Soviet space program is combined with a thoughtful dramatization of the mixed human impulses to explore, conquer, and transcend in this memorable short novel....[T]he work of an exciting new talent..."

Kirkus, 04/01/1996

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"...[W]icked, clever, and poetic....[He] does not so much ridicule Soviet life as expose its chief characteristics via a ruthless lampooning of the Soviet Union's proudest accomplishment, its space program....Mr. Pelevin...has a freshly jaundiced vision of a distorted world, and in this sense his book is a noteworthy and utterly unintended product of the defunct Soviet Union's striving for grandeur."

Richard Bernstein, New York Times, 06/12/1996