Doctor Garin

17 hrs. 41 min.

Language Russian

Author Vladimir Sorokin

Narrator Ivan Litvinov

Description

Ten years ago, a blizzard prevented Dr. Garan from reaching the village of Dolgoe and vaccinating its residents against a Bolivian virus that turns people into zombies. By a miracle, he didn’t freeze to death in the endless snowy steppe—in order to return to a post-apocalyptic world, where his patients would be the funniest and most helpless creatures on Earth: leaders of world powers from the past. This world—where they carve clocks from stone and iPhones from wood—is an encyclopedia of Sorokin’s dystopia, confidently giving the future the traits of a savage past. Despite the familiar irony and parody references to the Russian prose canon, “Dr. Garan” is distinguished by a noticeably new level of anxiety: the Gulag of swamp black devils—an offshoot of the Soviet experiment—turns out to be more terrifying than an atomic bomb. Another radical update is piercing lyricism. On the ruins of a shattered universe, the old-fashioned doctor will meet, lose, and then regain his only love—so that he can treat her to the end of his days.

Attention! The audio recording contains explicit profanity.

Age restriction: 18+