The Queue | Vladimir Sorokin, Sally Laird
We get to know his characters as they joke and curse, flirt, fight over position in line, make love, or break up, slurp down ice cream and vodka, run errands, fill out crossword puzzles, fall asleep and stand to attention again when morning comes around and the queue - which may be as long as life and as wide as the world - exercises its hypnotic hold." "Sally Laird's translation of The Queue has been revised to reflect the changes In the latest Russian edition of Sorokin's youthful masterpiece, While in a new afterword Sorokin himself looks back with peculiar nostalgia on the bygone world of the Soviet Union."--BOOK JACKET.
The Queue |