The Sacred Book of the Werewolf A Novel

The world’s first Zen Buddhist paranormal romance—published to coincide with Halloween One of the most progressive writers at work today, Victor Pelevin’s comic inventiveness has won him comparisons to Kafka, Calvino, and Gogol, and Timehas described him as a psychedelic Nabokov for the cyberage.” In The Sacred Book of the Werewolf, a smash success in Russia and Pelevin’s first novel in six years, paranormal meets transcendental with a splash of satire as A Hu-Li, a two-thousand-year-old shape-shifting werefox from ancient China meets her match in Alexander, a Wagner-addicted werewolf who’s the key figure in Russia’s Big Oil. Both a supernatural love story and an outrageously funny send-up of modern Russia, this stunning and ingenious work of the imagination is the sharpest novel to date from Russia’s most gifted literary malcontent.

Victor Pelevin is recognized as the leading Russian novelist of his generation and his award-winning works have been published in thirty-three countries. He shares his time between Moscow and the rest of the world.