Ice Trilogy

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"Sorokin's Ice Trilogy \s a fearless work from contemporary Russia's most imaginative writer. Sorokin pushes against the boundaries of religion and philosophy with results that are unforgettable, transfixing, and often scarily funny."
— GARY SHTEYNGART
in 1908, deep in Siberia, it fell to earth. THEIR ICE. A young man on a scientific expedition found it. It spoke to his heart, and his heart named him Bro. Bro felt the Ice. Bro knew its purpose. To bring together the 23,000 blond, blue-eyed Brothers and Sisters of the Light who were scattered on earth. To wake their sleeping hearts. To return to the Light. To destroy this world. And secretly, throughout the twentieth century and up to our own day, the Children of the Light have pursued their beloved goal.
Pulp fiction, science fiction, New Ageism, pornography, video-game mayhem, old-time Communist propaganda, and rampant commercial hype all collide, splinter, and splatter in Vladimir Sorokin's... Tovább

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A NEW YORK REVIEW BOOKS ORIGINAL
"Sorokin's Ice Trilogy \s a fearless work from contemporary Russia's most imaginative writer. Sorokin pushes against the boundaries of religion and philosophy with results that are unforgettable, transfixing, and often scarily funny."
— GARY SHTEYNGART
in 1908, deep in Siberia, it fell to earth. THEIR ICE. A young man on a scientific expedition found it. It spoke to his heart, and his heart named him Bro. Bro felt the Ice. Bro knew its purpose. To bring together the 23,000 blond, blue-eyed Brothers and Sisters of the Light who were scattered on earth. To wake their sleeping hearts. To return to the Light. To destroy this world. And secretly, throughout the twentieth century and up to our own day, the Children of the Light have pursued their beloved goal.
Pulp fiction, science fiction, New Ageism, pornography, video-game mayhem, old-time Communist propaganda, and rampant commercial hype all collide, splinter, and splatter in Vladimir Sorokin's virtuosic Ice Trilogy, a crazed joyrlde through modern times with the promise of a truly spectacular crash at the end. And the reader, as eager for the redemptive fix of a good story as the Children are for the Primordial Light, has no choice except to go along, caught up In a brilliant Illusion from which only illusion escapes Intact.
"Starting In the 1980s, Vladimir Sorokin has been writing the necessary novel, the precise parable, for each new stage of Russia's history. To read Sorokin today is to realize the power language exercises over us, and not just in the East. Styles clash in Sorokin's work, and we see what are claimed to be absolute truths from new angles along with the affinities that unite their different myths."
— INGO SCHULZE
Cover photograph: Chris Bucklow, from the series Guest; courtesy Danziger Projects, New York Cover design: Katy Homans Vissza