Damilola Karpov is a combat pilot and video artist. He lives in the gigantic off-shore of Byzantium that hangs over the expanses of Orcland like a black sun, and his remotely controlled video camera equipped with cannons and rockets terrifies the orcs during the sacred wars and the peaceful intervals between them. And Grym is an ordinary orc who has barely managed to finish school; he lives in the filth and squalor of the Orcish capital of Glory and understands little about how the order of the world works. Yet their fates are mysteriously linked by war and love—two components of the “snuffs” that united cinema and news into a single sacrifice made by the people of Manitu…
A very short time has passed since the printed version of Victor Pelevin’s sensational novel “S.N.U.F.F.” saw the light—and an audio version is already rushing after it. And this is no accident: after all, literary critics, popular internet bloggers, and Pelevin’s longtime fans have received his new work with far more than mere favor. The most frequently repeated epithets from restrained-to-praise literary scholars sound nothing less than…