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The Sacred Book of the Werewolf: A Novel
The Sacred Book of the Werewolf A Novel
Author: Victor Pelevin
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 Time has described him as a “psychedelic Nabokov for the cyberage.” In The Sacred Book of the We...  more », 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.
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ISBN-13: 9780143116035
ISBN-10: 0143116037
Publication Date: 9/29/2009
Pages: 352
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Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Book Type: Paperback
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A love story that formulates into a personal velocity. A book told from the female, were-fox perspective. A unique supernatural world developed with strong philosophical exploration.

What I liked....
Fantastic lines like "...a man's weak spot is the fantasies that fill his mind." So much of this story made me stop and really focus on the meaning of what was being transcribed. The philosophical points of view can be followed easily with this main character. I can argue with most of them, but I was really just trying to enjoy the story.

The funny sexual inuendos kept the sometimes meaty reading light. I loved the idea of the two main characters hypnotically enjoying the comforts of one another with intertwined tails while adding subjective roll playing from any other movie except porn.


What I hated....
The Russian political references that seemed endlessly boring, lost in a story that centers around love and self fulfillment. I love a good ending but this one was sadly off key.


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