Anna Aslanyan

Reality games

A searing satire set in a dystopic future,Victor Pelevin’s 2011 S.N.U.F.F. — now brilliantly translated into English — has been hailed as a prescient warning of Russia’s intentions in Ukraine

  • S.N.U.F.F.

    Victor Pelevin, translated from the Russian by Andrew Bromfield

    Gollancz, pp. 469

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