Buddha's Little Finger
Author | : Victor Pelevin |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 353 |
Release | : 2001-12-01 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781101655849 |
ISBN-13 | : 1101655844 |
Rating | : 4/5 (49 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: Russian novelist Victor Pelevin is rapidly establishing himself as one of the most brilliant young writers at work today. His comic inventiveness and mind-bending talent prompted Time magazine to proclaim him a "psychedelic Nabokov for the cyber-age." In his third novel, Buddha's Little Finger, Pelevin has created an intellectually dazzling tale about identity and Russian history, as well as a spectacular elaboration of Buddhist philosophy. Moving between events of the Russian Civil War of 1919 and the thoughts of a man incarcerated in a contemporary Moscow psychiatric hospital, Buddha's Little Finger is a work of demonic absurdism by a writer who continues to delight and astonish.