Homo Zapiens

Pelevin, Victor

ISBN 10: 067003066X / ISBN 13: 9780670030668

Published by Viking, New York, 2002

About this Item

8vo, 250 pp., Translated by Andrew Bromfield, Teddy bear and barbie doll dust jacket. Seller Inventory # 058168

Bibliographic Details

Title: Homo Zapiens

Publisher: Viking, New York

Publication Date: 2002

Binding: hardcover

Condition: Fine copy in fine dust jacket

Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

Edition: 1st edition.

About this title

Synopsis:

A richly textured novel of vanity, greed, and advertising revisits the collapse of the Soviet Union, which is now primed and ready for exploitation, as Tartarsky, a copywriter who has a knack for concocting home-grown alternatives to Western ads, is plunged into a realm of gangsters, spin doctors, and drug dealers where reality slowly begins to dissolve. 10,000 first printing.

About the Author:

Born in 1962 in Moscow, Victor Pelevin has swiftly become the leading Russian novelist of the new generation. In 1998, he was selected by The New Yorker as one of the best European writers under thirty-five. His most recent novel, Buddha's Little Finger, was shortlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. His fiction has been published in twenty-three countries.