{"product_id":"the-slynx","title":"Slynx","description":"\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\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\n\u003cp\u003e“A postmodern literary masterpiece.” –The Times Literary Supplement\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Tatyana Tolstaya\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTranslator:\u003c\/strong\u003e Jamey Gambrell\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e NYRB Classics\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePage Count:\u003c\/strong\u003e 320pp\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSize:\u003c\/strong\u003e 5 x 8\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNotes:\u003c\/strong\u003e paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDate of Publication:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 17, 2007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 978-1590171967\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"New York Review Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48039230308608,"sku":"9781590171967","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0053\/3902\/files\/slynx.jpg?v=1771084145","url":"https:\/\/atomicbooks.com\/products\/the-slynx","provider":"Atomic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}