false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255630300m/3212912.jpg 3212912 16 Victor Pelevin has established a reputation as one of the most brilliant writers at work today; his comic inventiveness has won him comparisons to Kafka, Calvino, and Gogol, and <I>Time</I> has described him as a psychedelic Nabokov for the cyberage. Pelevin's new novel, his first in six years, is both a supernatural love story and a satirical portrait of modern Russia. It concerns the adventures of a hardworking fifteen-year-old Moscow prostitute named A. Huli, who in reality is a two thousand-year-old were-fox who seduces men in order to absorb their life force; she does this by means of her tail, a hypnotic organ that puts men into a trance in which they dream they are having sex with her. A. Huli eventually comes to the attention of and falls in love with a high-ranking Russian intelligence officer named Alexander, who is also a werewolf (unbeknownst to our heroine). And that is only the beginning of the fun. A huge success in Russia, this is a stunning and ingenious work of the imagination, arguably Pelevin's sharpest and most engrossing novel to date. 3246638 book 2004 The Sacred Book of the Werewolf total:231|5:42|4:68|3:73|2:30|1:18| 231 779 509 80 4 5 false false Mon Oct 06 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Oct 06 09:02:27 -0700 2008 Mon Oct 06 09:39:40 -0700 2008 more...]]> 2 4 false false Fri Oct 30 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 19 12:22:38 -0700 2009 Mon Nov 02 05:29:51 -0800 2009 1 more...]]> 4 2 false false Sat Jan 03 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Dec 29 06:55:47 -0800 2008 Tue Jan 06 10:47:44 -0800 2009 more...]]> 2 1 false false Tue Jan 27 12:43:02 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 27 12:43:58 -0800 2009 4 0 true false Mon Dec 08 10:40:44 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 08 10:56:36 -0800 2008 more...]]> 3 1 false false Fri Jun 12 23:13:51 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 12 23:36:12 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 1 false false Sun Jan 04 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Dec 28 21:05:46 -0800 2008 Sun Jan 04 21:05:24 -0800 2009 1
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In brief, this is a modern book by a Russian author, translated into Engligh, who tells the tale of a 2000+ ...more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Jan 18 12:19:59 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 19 01:03:18 -0800 2009 A Story About a Mystical Fox Demon Who Becomes Involved with a Werewolf, Who Is Actually More of a Supporting Player in the Fox Demon's Life, but it was still interesting enough to make me want to finish it. I liked the fox demon. I wi...more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Jan 19 10:34:58 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 03 12:49:06 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 19 10:34:58 -0800 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Mon Jul 13 06:26:42 -0700 2009 Sun Jun 28 15:31:13 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 13 06:26:42 -0700 2009 http://lay-ra.blogspot.com/2009/07/pacin...

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