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The Blizzard
By Vladimir Sorokin
192 pages;
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Translated by Jamey Gambrell
A doctor and his ostensible guide travel to save aRussian town from plague and possibly the undead. What they encounter are diversions real and imagined as the road before them grows ever harder to discern.
— Dotun Akintoye
Published 01/22/2016