Buddha's Little FingerRussian 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. |
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excellent translation of this great fiction
User Review - frolicking0 - Overstock.comI read it in both languages and Id recommend it to all readers who are interested in truth about Russia Russian culture and its spiritual path to enlightenment Read full review
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User Review - ursula - LibraryThingWeird, deeply weird. Multiple storylines, interludes from other points of view, philosophy and history all rolled into one. The main character, Pyotr Voyd (the name is no accident), is in a present ... Read full review
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| Title | Buddha's Little Finger |
| Author | Victor Pelevin |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Penguin Publishing Group, 2001 |
| ISBN | 0141002328, 9780141002323 |
| Length | 352 pages |
| Subjects | › › Fiction / Literary Fiction / Psychological Fiction / Thrillers / Psychological |
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