The Sacred Book of the Werewolf [Hardcover]

"An astonishing new novel from the 'Zen Buddhist Will Self of the former Evil Empire' (Independent)."

An astonishing new novel from the ‘Zen Buddhist Will Self of the former Evil Empire’ (Independent).

A. Huli, the heroine of Victor Pelevin’s latest book, is beautiful, slender and curiously foxlike. She lives in Moscow and works as a classy prostitute in the city’s premier hotels. But when a client goes inexplicably and fatally berserk at the sight of her in his luxury suite, A. Huli has to leave in a hurry. She decides to explore new avenues and place an ad on the internet – and that’s when the trouble really starts. Victor Pelevin’s new work of fiction is both a supernatural love story and an outrageously funny satirical portrait of modern Russia. With all his characteristic humour and metaphysical ambition, Pelevin introduces us to an unforgettable cast of perverts, former KGB agents, oil tycoons and amorous werewolves.

An astonishing new novel from the ‘Zen Buddhist Will Self of the former Evil Empire’ (Independent) A Hu-Li is beautiful, slender and curiously foxlike. She lives in Moscow and works as a classy prostitute in the city’s premier hotels. But when a client goes inexplicably and fatally berserk at the sight of her in his luxury suite, A Hu-Li has to leave in a hurry. She decides to explore new avenues and place an ad on the internet – and that’s when the trouble really starts. ‘Just as critics were ready to pronounce Russian literature dead, along came Victor Pelevin … the brightest star of the post-Soviet generation.’ Time ‘One of the funniest novelists writing today.’ New Statesman ‘Victor Pelevin is the future of the Russian novel.’ Independent

Victor Pelevin has established a reputation as one of the most audacious of the younger generation of Russian writers. He has been selected by the New Yorker as one of the 'Best European Writers Under 35' and by the Observer as one of the 21 Writers for the 21st Century'.