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message 1: by Ashley E (new)

Ashley E | 416 comments This book has the ISBN as the title. The cover does show the title, but it's in Cyrillic, I believe, so I'm pretty useless.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...


message 2: by Scott (new)

Scott | 9204 comments Found it on WorldCat.


message 3: by Ashley E (new)

Ashley E | 416 comments Awesome, thanks!


message 4: by Tytti (new)

Tytti | 173 comments Are you sure it's the right title? Because the title also says Victor Pelevin (and at least Wikipedia doesn't seem to have a title like that by him).


message 5: by Scott (new)

Scott | 9204 comments Well, it seems to match what's on the cover. I think the author's name is also the title.


message 6: by Tytti (new)

Tytti | 173 comments Actually there seems to be also "Я" which means I.


message 7: by Koenraad (new)

Koenraad (koenraadkelemen) | 6993 comments The editor's website has the title of the book indeed as "Виктор Пелевин", the cyrillic spelling of Victor Pelevin (http://eksmo.ru/catalog/952/236890/?s...). My knowledge of Russian is non-existing, but after running the description given by the editor through Google translate, I'm quite sure it says it is an anthology of satirical stories and poems of the author, so I'm with Scott on this one.

I corrected the ISBN13 (the last number was missing) and added the blurb given by the editor.


message 8: by Alexandra (new)

Alexandra | 16 comments Yes. I was agreeing with Tytti, in thinking that the title should translate as "I, Victor Pelevin", but, on looking at the catalog link Koenraad gave, the book appears to be part of a series of books of "Satirical anthologies and Russian humour" in which the author's name is also the title. (So, I guess the "Я" in the 'banner' constitutes part of the cover illustration in this case.)


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