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Title: Omon Ra by Victor Pelevin, Andrew Bromfield, Victor Pelevin ISBN: 0-8112-1364-1 Publisher: New Directions Publishing Pub. Date: February, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.52 (21 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: shattered self-identity
Comment: I would reccomend this book to anyone who enjoys parody and especially to anyone who enjoyed Catch-22. Pelevin's book is a deeply funny and deeply heart-breaking commentary about self-identity, both personal and national. It is smart without being self-consciously so, its themes are universal, and the protagonist and his journey are unforgettable.
Rating: 4
Summary: Hilarious view at the Soviet space programme
Comment: Omon is a typical Soviet boy growing up in a dreary suburb of Moscow with an absent mother, a drunken father and an uninterested aunt who takes care of him. Since his childhood he want to be a cosmonaut and he shares this dream with a boy from the neighbourhood, Mitiok. Together they apply for Flying School and even make it to the training for the space program. Gradually it dawns on them that the Soviet achievements in the air and in space are not as glorious as they are claimed to be: the space program has a whole new interpretation of the term "automation" which makes the people who have to carry out the "automated techniques" into instant heroes, but in a way you do not exactly want. In the end Omon visits the moon, but not in the way he had expected it to be...
Pelevin wraps his criticisms on the Soviet society in a story which is at the same time hilarious, sarcastic and critical and makes you think of Franz Kafka and Joseph Heller. Definitely worth reading.
Rating: 4
Summary: A surreal look at Soviet culture
Comment: "Omon Ra," by Victor Pelevin, tells the story of a young man who enters the Soviet cosmonaut program. The novel has been translated from Russian into English by Andrew Bromfield. This is a bizarre, surreal novel that vividly evokes Soviet culture and ideals. There are some really grotesque and absurd scenes, and some vivid visual images.
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Title: Buddha's Little Finger by Victor Pelevin, Andrew Bromfield ISBN: 0141002328 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: 27 November, 2001 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: The Life of Insects by Victor Pelevin, Andrew Bromfield ISBN: 0140279725 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: February, 1999 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: The Blue Lantern: Stories by Victor Pelevin, Andrew Bromfield ISBN: 0811214346 Publisher: New Directions Publishing Pub. Date: May, 2000 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Homo Zapiens by Victor Pelevin ISBN: 0142001813 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: January, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: A Werewolf Problem in Central Russia and Other Stories by Victor Pelevin, Andrew Bromfield ISBN: 0811215431 Publisher: New Directions Publishing Pub. Date: May, 2003 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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