Reviews"Structurally cunning and delightfully intense...a work of rare intelligence and bite." --San Francisco Chronicle Book Review, "Structurally cunning and delightfully intense...a work of rare intelligence and bite." -- San Francisco Chronicle Book Review, "Structurally cunning and delightfully intense...a work of rare intelligence and bite." —San Francisco Chronicle Book Review, "Structurally cunning and delightfully intense...a work of rare intelligence and bite." — San Francisco Chronicle Book Review
Grade FromTwelfth Grade
Grade ToUP
Dewey Decimal891.73/44
Edition DescriptionReprint
SynopsisRussian novelist Victor Pelevin is rapidly establishing himself as one of the most brilliant young writers at work today. His comic inventiveness and mind-bending talent prompted Time magazine to proclaim him a "psychedelic Nabokov for the cyber-age." In his third novel, Buddha's Little Finger , Pelevin has created an intellectually dazzling tale about identity and Russian history, as well as a spectacular elaboration of Buddhist philosophy. Moving between events of the Russian Civil War of 1919 and the thoughts of a man incarcerated in a contemporary Moscow psychiatric hospital, Buddha's Little Finger is a work of demonic absurdism by a writer who continues to delight and astonish.