Manaraga

7 hrs. 5 min.

Language Russian

Author Vladimir Sorokin

Narrator Mikhail Gorevoy

Description

What will be the fate of the paper book in a world of smart fleas and holograms, live-bearing fur and goldfish, after the New Middle Ages and the Second Islamic Revolution? In the novel “Manaraga,” Vladimir Sorokin sets an unexpected direction for reflections on humanity’s relationship with the printed word. The unusual profession of the main character — an underground operator, a romantic, a master of his craft — makes us look at the book in a new way. Sorokin’s novel can be read as an epitaph to paper literature — and as a hymn to its eternal life.