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nNew in Paperback nA postmodern literary masterpiece. -The Times Literary Supplement n nTwo hundred years after civilization ended in an event known as the Blast, Benedikt isnt one to complain. Hes got a job--transcribing old books and presenting them as the words of the great new leader, Fyodor Kuzmich, Glorybe--and though he doesnt enjoy the privileged status of a Murza, at least hes not a serf or a half-human four-legged Degenerator harnessed to a troika. He has a house, too, with enough mice to cook up a tasty meal, and hes happily free of mutations: no extra fingers, no gills, no cockscombs sprouting from his eyelids. And hes managed--at least so far--to steer clear of the ever-vigilant Saniturions, who track down anyone who manifests the slightest sign of Freethinking, and the legendary screeching Slynx that waits in the wilderness beyond. n n Tatyana Tolstayas The Slynx reimagines dystopian fantasy as a wild, horripilating amusement park ride. Poised between Nabokovs Pale Fire and Burgesss A Clockwork Orange, The Slynx is a brilliantly inventive and shimmeringly ambiguous work of art: an account of a degraded world that is full of echoes of the sublime literature of Russias past; a grinning portrait of human inhumanity; a tribute to art in both its sovereignty and its helplessness; a vision of the past as the future in which the future is now.n
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Brand: Tatyana Tolstaya
