{"product_id":"the-sacred-book-of-the-werewolf-9780143116035","title":"The Sacred Book of the Werewolf","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe world's first Zen Buddhist paranormal romance?published to coincide with Halloween\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOne of the most progressive writers at work today, Victor Pelevin's comic inventiveness has won him comparisons to Kafka, Calvino, and Gogol, and \u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e has described him as a ?psychedelic Nabokov for the cyberage.? In \u003ci\u003eThe Sacred Book of the Werewolf\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eVictor Pelevin\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003cb\u003eA Werewolf Problem in Central Russia and Other Stories, The Life of Insects, Omon Ra, The Yellow Arrow\u003c\/b\u003e, and \u003cb\u003eThe Blue Lantern\u003c\/b\u003e, a collection of short stories that won the Russian \"Little Booker\" Prize. His novel \u003cb\u003eBuddha's Little Finger\u003cb\u003e was shortlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. He was named by \u003cb\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/b\u003e as one of the best European writers under thirty-five and by \u003cb\u003eThe Observer\u003c\/b\u003e newspaper in London as one of \"twenty-one writers to watch for the 21st century.\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Penguin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50565426643218,"sku":"9780143116035","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_2c5f2ad7-9c42-431f-863d-f3896c1a93b7.jpg?v=1731885741","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-sacred-book-of-the-werewolf-9780143116035","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}