Omon Ra, Paperback
Descriere
Victor Pelevin's novel Omon Ra has been widely praised for its poetry and its wickedness, a novel in line with the great works of Gogol and Bulgakov: ""full of the ridiculous and the sublime,"" says The Observer London]. Omon is chosen to be trained in the Soviet space program the fulfillment of his lifelong dream. However, he enrolls only to encounter the terrifying absurdity of Soviet protocol and its backward technology: a bicycle-powered moonwalker; the outrageous Colonel Urgachin (""a kind of Sovier Dr. Strangelove"" The New York Times); and a one-way assignment to the moon. The New Yorker proclaimed: ""Omon's adventure is like a rocket firing off its various stages each incident is more jolting and propulsively absurd than the one before.""
Despre autor
Victor Olegovici Pelevin este un scriitor rus de literatură de ficțiune. Romanele sale includ „Omon Ra” (1992), „Viața insectelor” (1993), „Ciapâiev și Vidul” (1996) și „Generația P” (1999). El este laureat al mai multor premii literare, printre care Premiul Micul Booker al Rusiei (1993) și Premiul Național de Bestseller al Rusiei (2004), primul pentru colecția de povestiri „Lanterna albastră” (1991).
