Telluria

Vladimir Sorokin

Jan 2023 · Tantor Media Inc · Kimesimuliwa na David Aranovich

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Telluria is set in the future, when a devastating holy war between Europe and Islam has succeeded in returning the world to the torpor and disorganization of the Middle Ages. Europe, China, and Russia have all broken up. The people of the world now live in an array of little nations that are like puzzle pieces, each cultivating its own ideology or identity, a neo-feudal world of fads and feuds, in which no one power dominates. What does, however, travel everywhere is the appetite for the special substance tellurium. A spike of tellurium, driven into the brain by an expert hand, offers a transforming experience of bliss; incorrectly administered, it means death. The fifty chapters of Telluria map out this brave new world from fifty different angles, as Vladimir Sorokin, always a virtuoso of the word, introduces us to, among many other figures, partisans and princes, peasants and party leaders, a new Knights Templar, a harem of phalluses, and a dog-headed poet and philosopher who feasts on carrion from the battlefield. The book is an immense and sumptuous tapestry of the word, carnivalesque and cruel, and Max Lawton, Sorokin's gifted translator, has captured it in an English that carries the charge of Cormac McCarthy and William Gibson.

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Vladimir Sorokin is the author of The Queue, Their Four Hearts, Blue Lard, and many more books. His work has been translated into more than thirty languages. He is also the author of screenplays for Moscow, The Kopeck, and 4. His most recent novel is Doctor Garin. He lives in Vnukovo and Berlin.

David Aranovich was born in Chicago to Russian immigrants. With a degree in theater, David has acted in films and television alongside the likes of Bradley Cooper, Daniel Radcliffe, Steve Carell, and others. David is also an audiobook narrator and voice-over artist whose voice can be heard in video games and major films.

Max Lawton is a novelist, musician, and translator. His translations of Vladimir Sorokin's stories have appeared in the New Yorker and n+1. In addition to eight of Sorokin's books, he is translating two books by Jonathan Littell. He lives in New York City.