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The Sacred Book of the Werewolf: A Novel
by Victor Pelevin
About this book
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 Werewolf, 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.
- Publication Date
- May 25, 2026
- ASIN
- B001FA0NB0
Reader Reviews
May 29, 2013
Even if you don't ordinarily read science-fiction or novels with werewolves, you will still enjoy The Sacred Book of the Werewolf since Victor Pelevin grounds his novel in a fund of everyday reality and tells his tale in easy-to-follow linear narrative. True, the narrator is a 2000 year old female werefox in the body of a sleek, shapely gorgeous sixteen year old girl, but, still, there is enough human-like traits to identify with her desires and aspirations and conflicts. We follow our sly...
December 5, 2008
I don't think that this book reminded me of anything Nabokov wrote (as suggested in the blurbs); however this is an imaginative (maybe kooky) book that starts out as a sort of science fiction and ends up as a zen manifesto and with the discovery of the meaning (or lack there of) of life (for werefoxes, at least - the narrator simply didn't have the time to spell it out for humans). I think I may have missed a lot of the subtlety of this book because I know very little about Russia. ) 13 people...
December 10, 2017
The Sacred Book of the Werewolf is an intricate and sometimes confusing story about the emotional and psychological history of Russia, as seen through the eyes of a shape-shifting creature living in Soviet Russia after World War II. ) One person found this helpful
September 18, 2020
One of the best examples of contemporary Russian literature. Highly recommended. ) One person found this helpful
December 9, 2008
\"The present text, which is also known under the title of 'A Hu-Li' is in fact a clumsy literary forgery\". So begins \"The Sacred Book of the Werewolf\", in a faux 'Commentary by Experts', which goes on to describe the strange events surrounding the discovery of the present manuscript, and to place a rather official sounding stamp of worthlessness on the whole business. This short introduction was all I had time to read in the bookstore, but it set its claws in me, and I ordered the book...
