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Imagines a New Russia of the near future that is ruled by a reconstituted nobility and which blends draconian codes with modern technology while locking down Western borders, a region in which a twenty-years-older Vladimir Putin has appropriated all freeenterprise.
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About the book
- Author
- Vladimir Sorokin
- First published
- 2011
- Pages
- 191
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Editions
- 1
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780374134754
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