{"product_id":"the-slynx-by-tatyana-tolstaya","title":"The Slynx \nby Tatyana Tolstaya","description":"\u003cp\u003eNew in Paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“A postmodern literary masterpiece.” –The Times Literary Supplement\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTwo hundred years after civilization ended in an event known as the Blast, Benedikt isn’t one to complain. He’s got a job—transcribing old books and presenting them as the words of the great new leader, Fyodor Kuzmich, Glorybe—and though he doesn’t enjoy the privileged status of a Murza, at least he’s not a serf or a half-human four-legged Degenerator harnessed to a troika. He has a house, too, with enough mice to cook up a tasty meal, and he’s happily free of mutations: no extra fingers, no gills, no cockscombs sprouting from his eyelids. And he’s managed—at least so far—to steer clear of the ever-vigilant Saniturions, who track down anyone who manifests the slightest sign of Freethinking, and the legendary screeching Slynx that waits in the wilderness beyond.\u003c\/p\u003e  \n\n\u003cp\u003eTatyana Tolstaya’s The Slynx reimagines dystopian fantasy as a wild, horripilating amusement park ride. Poised between Nabokov’s Pale Fire and Burgess’s A Clockwork Orange, The Slynx is a brilliantly inventive and shimmeringly ambiguous work of art: an account of a degraded world that is full of echoes of the sublime literature of Russia’s past; a grinning portrait of human inhumanity; a tribute to art in both its sovereignty and its helplessness; a vision of the past as the future in which the future is now.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Books Feri","offers":[{"title":"Premium Paperback","offer_id":45409939456191,"sku":null,"price":265.0,"currency_code":"BDT","in_stock":true},{"title":"Premium Hardcover","offer_id":45405331259583,"sku":null,"price":365.0,"currency_code":"BDT","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0692\/8148\/0895\/files\/41EEJm0ib_L._SY445_SX342_FMwebp.webp?v=1767116739","url":"https:\/\/booksferi.store\/products\/the-slynx-by-tatyana-tolstaya","provider":"Books Feri","version":"1.0","type":"link"}