Pelevin, Victor

New York. 1997. New Directions. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket . 0811213706. Translated from the Russian by Andrew Bromfield. 160 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Semadar Megged. keywords: Literature Translated Russia . FROM THE PUBLISHER - Victor Pelevin's highly acclaimed story collection, The Blue Lantern, winner of the Russian Little Booker Prize, gathers eight of his very best stories. Various, delightful, and uncategorizable, the stories are highly addictive. Pelevin here, as in The Yellow Arrow (New Directions, 1996), Omon Ra (ND, 1997), and A Werewolf Problem in Central Russia (ND, 1998), pays great attention to the meaning of life, in earnest and as spoof. In the title story, kids in a Pioneer-camp tell terrifying bedtime stories; in Hermits and Six-Toes, two chickens are obsessed with the nature of the universe as viewed from their poultry plant; the young communist-league activists of Mid-Game change their sex to become hard-currency prostitutes; and The Life and Adventures of Shed Number XII is the story of a storage hut whose dream is to become a bicycle. inventory #24668 ISBN: 0811213706.