The yellow arrow

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The yellow arrow

Victor Pelevin ; translated from the Russian by Andrew Bromfield

(A New Directions paperbook, 845)

New Directions, c1994

  • : pbk

Other Title

Zhëltai︠a︡ strela

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The main character, Andrei, is a passenger aboard the Yellow Arrow, who begins to despair over the trains ultimate destination and looks for a way out as the chapters count down. Indifferent to their fate, the other passengers carry on as usual - trading in nickel melted down fro the carriage doors, attending the Upper Bunk avant-garde theatre, and leafing through Pasternak's Early Trains. Pelevin's art lies in the ease with which he shifts from precisely imagined science fiction to lyrical meditations on past and future. And, because he is a natural storyteller with a wonderfully absurd imagination. The Yellow Arrow is full of the ridiculous and the sublime. It is a reflective story, chilling and gripping.

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  • NCID
    BA86031770
  • ISBN
    • 9780811213554
  • LCCN
    96000773
  • Country Code
    us
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Original Language Code
    rus
  • Place of Publication
    New York
  • Pages/Volumes
    92 p.
  • Size
    21 cm
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