Telluria

Following the critically acclaimed and award-winning novel "The Snowstorm", Vladimir Sorokin presents his opus magnum: "Telluria" is a fulminant literary tour de force through a present filled with violence, uncertainty and new promises of salvation that is frighteningly similar to ours - even though almost everything is quite different. Eurasia, mid-21st century: After religious wars, revolutions and uprisings, the continent between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans has disintegrated into isolated small states. Russia has sunk into a deep sleep, Moscow is switching to potato gas, an enlightened theocratic-communofeudalist regime prevails, the surrounding area is in Chinese hands. After three years of Taliban rule, Cologne is once again celebrating carnival. The dwarf state SSSR, Stalin's Soviet Socialist Republic, an oligarchic foundation, has become a paradise for Lin.