{"product_id":"the-sugar-kremlin-9781628975789","title":"The Sugar Kremlin","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePresenting a wide variety of genres and tones, \u003ci\u003eThe Sugar Kremlin\u003c\/i\u003e lays out a frightening vision of speculative mercilessness and carnivalesque political horror.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Sugar Kremlin\u003c\/i\u003e is the follow-up to Vladimir Sorokin's \u003ci\u003eDay of the Oprichnik\u003c\/i\u003e, taking place in the same New Medieval universe over the course of fifteen chapters that all return to the object of the title: replicas of the Moscow Kremlin made of sugar. Thousands of these creations are given away to children during the holidays, then make their way through each stratum of Russian society. We follow the trajectories of these candied gifts from the hands of harried paupers to secret political dissidents, from torture-obsessed civil servants to sex workers in a nearby bordello...\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs Sorokin shifts from story to story and style to style, he draws the reader through grotesquely Russian scenes, creating an aberrantly metaphysical encyclopedia of the New Medieval \"Russian soul.\" The candy's sweetness is deceptive-underneath it, you may detect notes of blood.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eVladimir Sorokin\u003c\/b\u003e was born in a small town outside of Moscow in 1955. He trained as an engineer at the Moscow Institute of Oil and Gas, but turned to art and writing, becoming a major presence in the Moscow underground of the 1980s. In 1992, Sorokin's \u003ci\u003eCollected Stories\u003c\/i\u003e was nominated for the Russian Booker Prize; in 1999, the publication of the controversial novel \u003ci\u003eBlue Lard\u003c\/i\u003e, which included a sex scene between clones of Stalin and Khrushchev, led to public demonstrations against the book and to demands that Sorokin be prosecuted as a pornographer. His award-winning works have been translated throughout the world, most recently by Dalkey Archive Press and NYRB Classics.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMax Lawton\u003c\/b\u003e is a translator, novelist, and musician. He has translated many books by Vladimir Sorokin, including \u003ci\u003eBlue Lard\u003c\/i\u003e (NYRB Classics), \u003ci\u003eTheir Four Hearts\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eDispatches from the District Committee\u003c\/i\u003e (both from Dalkey Archive Press).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJoshua Cohen\u003c\/strong\u003e was born in 1980 in Atlantic City. Called \"a major American writer\" by the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, and \"an extraordinary prose stylist, surely one of the most prodigious at work in American fiction today\" by the \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, Cohen has published novels (\u003cem\u003eThe Netanyahus\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eMoving Kings\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eBook of Numbers\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eWitz\u003c\/em\u003e), a collection of stories (\u003cem\u003eFour New Messages\u003c\/em\u003e), and a collection of essays (\u003cem\u003eAttention\u003c\/em\u003e). He was named one of Granta's Best Young American Novelists, and his awards include the Matanel Prize, the National Jewish Book Award, and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Dalkey Archive Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51623927087378,"sku":"9781628975789","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_f64719de-32ec-4ab5-b6d3-80996381e3f0.jpg?v=1758649044","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-sugar-kremlin-9781628975789","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}