Açıklama
Set in a crumbling resort hotel on the Black Sea, the novel follows the misadventures of the Russian duo Arnold and Arthur and the khaki-clad Sam, a visiting American. The twist is that these characters are depicted alternately as human beings and as insects: now they are humans with buggy qualities; now they are insects that walk and talk.
As they forage, quarrel, joke, and suck blood in the squalid rooms of the old hotel - and on the bodies of their hosts - they invariably get into trouble. In one chapter, a couple of hemp bugs suddenly find themselves being smoked in somebody else's pipe; in another, two moths flitting around a streetlight discuss the meaning of life in Beckett-like dialogue.
Baskılar ve ISBN
- 1997
- Vagrius · Rusça · 350 sayfa
ISBN 5702704916 - 1999
- Penguin Books · İngilizce · 179 sayfa
ISBN 0140279725 - 1998
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux · İngilizce · 179 sayfa
ISBN 0374186251 - 1996
- Harbord Pub. · İngilizce · 158 sayfa
ISBN 1899414207
Künye
- Yazar
- Viktor Olegovich Pelevin
- İlk yayın
- 1996
- Yayınevleri
- Vagrius, Harbord Pub., Penguin Books, Faber and Faber, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Sayfa (ortalama)
- 179
- Baskı sayısı
- 6
- Kaynak
- Open Library