In the novel by one of Russia’s leading writers, the horrifying world of the future is shown, divided into Beyond-the-Barriers, where physically healthy earthlings live, and the Reservation—Under-the-Dome—a monstrous abode of mutants, a zone of degeneration…
The hunting of mutants becomes one of the favorite entertainments of the people of the future. But sometimes the scythe strikes a stone, and those who come with the sword perish by the sword—those who sow the wind reap the whirlwind. This action-packed, intensely eventful, supremely gripping novel is at the same time one of the best philosophical anti-utopian novels of the twentieth century.