Sorokin, Vladimir - Day of the Oprichnik

And thank God.

A Note About the Author

Vladimir Sorokin was born in 1955. He is the author of many novels, plays, short stories, screenplays, and a libretto. He has won the Andrei Bely Prize and the Maxim Gorky Prize, and was a finalist for the Russian Booker Prize. His work has been translated into many languages. He lives in Moscow.

A Note About the Translator

Jamey Gambrell is a writer on Russian art and culture. Her translations include works by Joseph Brodsky, Alexander Rodchenko, Tatyana Tolstaya, and Marina Tsvetaeva. She has also translated Vladimir Sorokin’s The Ice Trilogy , his novella A Month in Dachau , and a number of his stories. She lives in New York City.

Also by Vladimir Sorokin

The Queue

The Ice Trilogy:

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Ice

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Copyright © 2006 by Vladimir Sorokin

Translation copyright © 2011 by Jamey Gambrell

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Originally published in 2006 by Zakharov, Russia, as Den’ oprichnika

Published in the United States by Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Sorokin, Vladimir, 1955–

[Den’ oprichnika. English]

Day of the oprichnik / Vladimir Sorokin; translated [from the Russian] by Jamey Gambrell. — 1st American ed.

p. cm.

Originally published in Russia as Den’ oprichnika.

ISBN: 978-1-4299-9491-0

I. Gambrell, Jamey. II. Title.

PG3488.O66D4613 2011

891.73—dc22

2010039060

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1 State ( Chin. ).

2 Crime! ( Chin. ).

3 Asshole ( Chin. ).

4 Hunanese girl.

5 No fucking way! ( Chin. ).

6 A Chinese 4-D game that became popular in New Russia after the well-known events of November 2027.

7 Shield ( Chin. ).

8 Attaboy ( Chin. ).

9 Splendid ( Chin. ).

10 Fool ( Chin. ).

11 “Were I even a Negro late in my life, even so, without dawdling or dreariness, I’d go and learn Russian simply because, ’twas in Russian that Lenin conversed.”

12 Without doubt or bitterness.

13 Patronage.