Vladimir Sorokin is the author of 11 novels, including DAY OF THE OPRICHNIK, Ice Trilogy and THE QUEUE, 13 plays, and numerous short stories and screenplays. He wrote the libretto for Leonid Desyatnikov’s The Children of Rosenthal, the first opera to be commissioned by the Bolshoi Theater in a quarter century. His books have been translated into 30 languages. He has won the Andrei Bely and the Maxim Gorky prizes, and THE BLIZZARD was the recipient of both the NOS Literature Prize and the Bolshaya Kniga prize. In 2013, Sorokin was a finalist for the Man Booker International Prize. He lives in Moscow.

Books by Vladimir Sorokin

The Blizzard

written by Vladimir Sorokin, translated from the Russian by Jamey Gambrell - Fantasy, Fiction, Historical Fantasy, Historical Fiction

In THE BLIZZARD, we are immersed in the atmosphere of a 19th-century Russia. Garin, a district doctor, is desperately trying to reach the village of Dolgoye, where a mysterious epidemic is turning people into zombies. He carries with him a vaccine that will prevent the spread of this terrible disease but is stymied in his travels by an all-consuming snowstorm, an impenetrable blizzard that turns a drive that should last only a few hours into a voyage of days and, finally, a journey into eternity.