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Title	:	The Sacred Book of the Werewolf
Author	:	Victor Pelevin
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 336 pages
Published	:	September 4th 2008 by Viking Adult (first published 2004)
Categories	:	Fiction. Fantasy. Cultural. Russia. Literature. Russian Literature. Urban Fantasy. Shapeshifters. Werewolves. Paranormal

The Sacred Book of the Werewolf Hardcover | Pages: 336 pages

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Paranormal meets transcendental in this provocative and hilarious novel.

Victor Pelevin has established a reputation as one of the most brilliant writers at work today; his comic inventiveness has won him comparisons to Kafka, Calvino, and Gogol, and Time has described him as a “psychedelic Nabokov for the cyberage.” Pelevin’s new novel, his first in six years, is both a supernatural love story and a satirical portrait of modern Russia. It concerns the adventures of a hardworking fifteen-year-old Moscow prostitute named A. Huli, who in reality is a two thousand-year-old were-fox who seduces men in order to absorb their life force; she does this by means of her tail, a hypnotic organ that puts men into a trance in which they dream they are having sex with her. A. Huli eventually comes to the attention of and falls in love with a high-ranking Russian intelligence officer named Alexander, who is also a werewolf (unbeknownst to our heroine). And that is only the beginning of the fun. A huge success in Russia, this is a stunning and ingenious work of the imagination, arguably Pelevin’s sharpest and most engrossing novel to date.

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ISBN:	0670019887 (ISBN13: 9780670019885)

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I hated this book. truly. There may have been great metaphors that I missed, but mostly it felt like a pretentious effort to link al ot of erudite stuff in what was really just a Beauty and the Beast- meets - Nabakovian pedophile effort of prurient crap.

In modern Moscow, a werefox prostitute falls in love with a werewolf FSB (formerly KGB) agent, and seeks enlightenment through philosophy and Buddhism. Sexy and smart, and full of Nabokovian turns of phrase. Just as the fox's tail spins a glamour on her clients, Pelevin's wordplay ensorcells the reader, and a satire of contemporary Russia transmutes into a profound exploration of the very notion of existence itself.The only quibble I had at all was a minor one, that of the werefox nomenclature;

Very comfortably one of the worst books I've ever read.

Two cautions. Waterstones put this on their horror shelf - it isn't a horror novel and it adds nothing consequential to the werewolf genre. It might just slip into the dark fantasy category but only at a stretch. It should sit nowhere else but under general fiction.The second is the claim on the dust jacket that it is 'very funny' or 'outrageously funny'. It is not - in English. It can be mildly amusing at times but I think you have to be a post-Soviet Russian to get this book. I would bet that

This was a Christmas present a few years back. I appreciated its druggy symbolism, the menacing shadows veiling the FSB and all other pillars of the New Russia. I was left sort of meh: Pelevin is often that way for me.

Perfectly blended intertwining themes mark this, the first novel I've read by the much touted Victor Pelevin. Firstly and primarily--although it sneaks up on you as it goes along--the text is the fictional holy scripture of the pseudo-Buddhist concept of the super-werewolf. This is the part of the novel I liked least because, alas, I'm just not a spiritual or superstitious guy, despite my love of horror and ghost stories. (It irks me--a writer who wants to live the dark tragic romanticism of

This book's beginning is very promising and highly original. A werewolf does make an appearance eventually, but the main heroine is a werefox and werefoxes are a very interesting, hitherto unknown (to me) breed. The translation seems excellent, with lots of word play rendered v. deftly in English. There is a compelling love story, and a lot of imaginative sex scenes (and I do mean imaginative!! Let me just allude to the importance of the tail in a werefox's life in general and sexual passion in