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Antoine Volodine

Radiant Terminus Paperback Book

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Post-apocalyptic Soviet dystopia
Psychotic dream-invading antagonist
Blends sci-fi with magical realism
490 pages of ambitious storytelling
Darkly humorous and unsettling
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"Irreducible to any single literary genre, the Volodinian cosmos is skillfully crafted, fusing elements of science fiction with magical realism and political commentary." Music & LiteratureThe most patently scifi work of Antoine Volodines to be translated into English, Radiant Terminus takes place in a Tarkovskian landscape after the fall of the Second Soviet Union. Most of humanity has been destroyed thanks to a number of nuclear meltdowns, but a few communes remain, including one run by Solovyei, a psychotic father with the ability to invade peoples dreamsincluding those of his daughtersand torment them for thousands of years.When a group of damaged individuals seek safety from this nuclear winter in Solovyeis commune, a plot develops to overthrow him, end his reign of mental abuse, and restore humanity.Fantastical, unsettling, and occasionally funny, Radiant Terminus is a key entry in Volodines epic literary project thatwith its broad landscape, ambitious vision, and interlocking characters and ideascalls to mind the best of David Mitchell.Antoine Volodine (a.k.a. Lutz Bassmann, a.k.a. Manuela Draeger) is the primary pseudonym of a French writer who has published more than forty books, over twenty under this name. Seven of his titles are currently available in English translation, including Minor Angels, Bardo or Not Bardo, and PostExoticism in Ten Lessons, Lesson Eleven.Jeffrey Zuckerman is digital editor of Music & Literature. His writing and translations have...

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Binding: Paperback;490 pages; Publisher: Open Letter Books; Classification: FA; Weight: 676 g; Dimensions: 142 x 217 x 28

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