For The Daily Beast, I wrote about Vladimir Sorokin. This spring, two of his books appeared in English translation, Day of the Oprichnik and the 700-page Ice Trilogy, which I called ”an alternative vision of the universe, from Earth’s formation to its eventual end.” He’s a bizarre and deeply imaginative writer. Ice is not for everyone, but Day of the Oprichnik provides a nice glimpse of Sorokin’s apocalyptic tendencies, and The Queue is another inventive short novel well worth checking out.
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