Also published as: Homo Zapiens / Babylon

Author: Victor Pelevin Year: 1999 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Satire, Contemporary, Fantasy, Fiction Culture: Russia Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads Barns&Noble Amazon Google Books LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780142001813 0142001813

The collapse of the Soviet Union has opened up a huge consumer market, but how do you sell things to a generation that grew up with just one type of cola? When Tatarsky, a frustrated poet, takes a job as an advertising copywriter, he finds he has a talent for putting distinctively Russian twists on Western-style ads. But his success leads him into a surreal world of spin doctors, gangsters, drug trips, and the spirit of Che Guevera, who, by way of a Ouija board, communicates theories of consumer theology. A bestseller in Russia, Homo Zapiens displays the biting absurdist satire that has gained Victor Pelevin superstar status among today's Russian youth, disapproval from the conservative Moscow literary world, and critical acclaim worldwide. Similar books: Buddha's Little Finger by Victor Pelevin Omon Ra by Victor Pelevin The Life of Insects by Victor Pelevin The Funeral Party by Ludmila Ulitskaya The Enchanter by Vladimir Nabokov Sonechka by Ljudmila Evgenevna Ulickaja The Gift by Vladimir Nabokov The White Guard by Mikhail Bulgakov Scarlet Sails by Alexander Grin Mary by Vladimir Nabokov A School for Fools by Sasha Sokolov Despair by Vladimir Nabokov The Island of Crimea by Vasily Aksyonov The Seas by Samantha Hunt The Opposite House by Helen Oyeyemi Ghostwritten by David Mitchell Landline by Rainbow Rowell The Testament of Gideon Mack by James Robertson