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Welcome to the world of Big Byz

A searing satire set in a dystopic future,Victor Pelevin’s 2011 S.N.U.F.F. — now brilliantly translated into English — has been hailed as a prescient warning of Russia’s intentions in Ukraine

18 July 2015

9:00 AM

18 July 2015

9:00 AM

S.N.U.F.F. Victor Pelevin, translated from the Russian by Andrew Bromfield

Gollancz, pp.469, £25, ISBN: 9781473213029

The title of Victor Pelevin’s 2011 novel stands for ‘Special Newsreel/Universal Feature Film’. This product is made by the narrator, who pilots his hi-tech camera without leaving his room, propped up against cushions. The corpulent Damilola Karpov lives in Byzantion, or Big Byz, an ‘offglobe’ hovering over what’s left of the old world after the collapse of its superpowers and other apocalyptic events.

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