A dazzling, utterly distinctive saga from the internationally celebrated and controversial novelist known as "the shock jock of Russian letters" (Harper's).

Longlisted for the 2016 PEN Translation Prize
A New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice

Garin, a district doctor, is desperately trying to reach the village of Dolgoye, where a mysterious epidemic is turning people into zombies. He carries with him a vaccine that will prevent the spread of this terrible disease, but is stymied in his travels by an impenetrable blizzard. A trip that should last no more than a few hours turns into a metaphysical journey, an expedition filled with extraordinary encounters, dangerous escapades, torturous imaginings, and amorous adventures.

Trapped in an existential storm, Vladimir Sorokin's characters fight their way across a landscape that owes as much to Chekhov's Russian countryside as it does to the post-apocalyptic terrain of science fiction. Hypnotic, fascinating, and richly drawn, The Blizzard is a seminal work from one of the most inventive authors writing today. Sorokin has created yet another boldly original work, which combines an avant-garde sensibility with a taste for the absurd and the grotesque, all while delivering stinging truths about contemporary life and modern-day Russia.

"Vladimir Sorokin [is] Russia's most inventive contemporary author... [Gambrell's] translation is as elegant, playful and layered as the original." -- Masha Gessen, The New York Times Book Review

"Following the dystopian nightmare of Day of the Oprichnik and the epic, genre-bending Ice Trilogy comes The Blizzard, a more accessible but no less imaginative novel encompassing a familiar Russian vista with splashy avant-garde flourishes." ?Malcolm Forbes, Star Tribune

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