Product Description: Mr. Sorokin's latest work is named after Ivan the Terrible's 16th-century KGB. These 21st-century oprichniki, however, drive around in their Chinese-made Mercedes and use computers, but still behave like feudal lords. The novel is set in 2028, when all that counts are oil, gas and an unswerving loyalty to a tyrant and his henchmen...read more

Product Description: Ice is at the center of Vladimir Sorokin's epic Ice Trilogy, which is also published by NYRB Classics.Moscow has been hit by a wave of brutal murders. The victims are of both sexes, from different backgrounds, and of all ages, but invariably blond and blue-eyed...read more

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Vladimir Sorokin’s first published novel, The Queue, is a sly comedy about the late Soviet “years of stagnation.” Thousands of citizens are in line for . . . nobody knows quite what, but the rumors are flying. Leather or suede? Jackets, jeans? Turkish, Swedish, maybe even American? It doesn’t matter–if anything is on sale, you better line up to buy it. Sorokin’s tour de force of ventriloquism and formal daring tells the whole story in snatches of unattributed dialogue, adding up to nothing less than the real voice of the people, overheard on the street as they joke and curse, fall in and out of love, slurp down ice cream or vodka, fill out crossword puzzles, even go to sleep and line up again in the morning as the queue drags on.