Provocative, hilarious, and tender stories about sex, violence, politics from one of the greatest Russian writers of the postSoviet era.Red Pyramid is a sort of greatest hits collection of short stories from across Vladimir Sorokins career, beginning with juvenilia like The Pink Tuber, composed with no expectation of either publication or readership moving on to scatological conceptual texts like An Obelisk then plunging into the more eventempered, but still quite uncanny, delights of his postSoviet work.Stories like A Month in Dachau earn Sorokin his moniker as the Russian De Sade, while others, like Timka, are shockingly tenderdespite their graphic depictions of mass shootings and anal sex.This collection also contains the infamous Nastya, a story about a family cannibalizing its daughter on the eve of the twentieth century, for which Sorokin was nearly put on trial Horse Soup, which was the first translation from the Russian to win an OHenry Prize as well as stories published in Anglophone magazines such as The New Yorker, n+1, Harpers, and The Baffler to great acclaim.Translated by Max Lawton with equal attention to chewiness and pop flair, Red Pyramid is introduced brilliantly, brutally, and as always, unexpectedly by Will Self. Red Pyramid is perhaps the best place to begin a dive into Sorokins arch detonation of Russian violence.

Binding: Paperback;288 pages; Publisher: New York Review Books; Classification: FYB; Weight: 448 g; Dimensions: 202 x 128 x 20

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