The Blizzard

What strange Bolivian virus caused an epidemic in a Russian village? Where did the crystal pyramids come from in the snow among fields and forests? Who are vitamin-ders living their own special lives in houses made of self-growing felt? And how will the story of one trip by the village doctor Garin end—one that began in a blizzard at a small station where you can never find horses? All of this is a new novella by Vladimir Sorokin.