{"product_id":"9781590171967","title":"The Slynx","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew in Paperback\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A postmodern literary masterpiece.” –\u003ci\u003eThe Times Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTwo hundred years after civilization ended in an event known as the Blast, Benedikt isn’t one to complain. He’s got a job—transcribing old books and presenting them as the words of the great new leader, Fyodor Kuzmich, Glorybe—and though he doesn’t enjoy the privileged status of a Murza, at least he’s not a serf or a half-human four-legged Degenerator harnessed to a troika. He has a house, too, with enough mice to cook up a tasty meal, and he’s happily free of mutations: no extra fingers, no gills, no cockscombs sprouting from his eyelids. And he’s managed—at least so far—to steer clear of the ever-vigilant Saniturions, who track down anyone who manifests the slightest sign of Freethinking, and the legendary screeching Slynx that waits in the wilderness beyond.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     Tatyana Tolstaya’s \u003ci\u003eThe Slynx\u003c\/i\u003e reimagines dystopian fantasy as a wild, horripilating amusement park ride. Poised between Nabokov’s \u003ci\u003ePale Fire\u003c\/i\u003e and Burgess’s \u003ci\u003eA Clockwork Orange\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Slynx\u003c\/i\u003e is a brilliantly inventive and shimmeringly ambiguous work of art: an account of a degraded world that is full of echoes of the sublime literature of Russia’s past; a grinning portrait of human inhumanity; a tribute to art in both its sovereignty and its helplessness; a vision of the past as the future in which the future is now.","brand":"Tatyana Tolstaya","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback Trade paperback (US)","offer_id":45894607700180,"sku":"9781590171967","price":25.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1000\/9208\/files\/BNCImageAPI_f5ac94a5-99f7-425d-84f2-626325931a59.jpg?v=1732360001","url":"https:\/\/penguinshop.ca\/products\/9781590171967","provider":"Penguin Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}