Omon’s adventure is like a rocket firing off its various stages—each incident is more jolting and propulsively absurd than the one before.

The New Yorker

Omon Ra

Fiction by Victor Pelevin

Translated from Russian by Andrew Bromfield

Victor Pelevin’s novel Omon Ra has been widely praised for its poetry and its wickedness, a novel in line with the great works of Gogol and Bulgakov: “full of the ridiculous and the sublime,” says The Observer (London). Omon is chosen to be trained in the Soviet space program, the fulfillment of his lifelong dream. However, he enrolls only to encounter the terrifying absurdity of Soviet protocol and its backward technology: a bicycle-powered moonwalker; the outrageous Colonel Urgachin (“a kind of Soviet Dr. Strangelove” — New York Times); and a one-way assignment to the moon. The New Yorker proclaimed: “Omon’s adventure is like a rocket firing off its various stages — each incident is more jolting and propulsively absurd than the one before.”

Paperback(published Feb, 01 1998)

ISBN
9780811213646
Price US
14.95
Trim Size
5x8
Page Count
154

Ebook(published Feb, 01 1998)

ISBN
9780811221245
Price US
14.95
Portrait of Victor Pelevin

Victor Pelevin

Contemporary Russian novelist

Omon’s adventure is like a rocket firing off its various stages—each incident is more jolting and propulsively absurd than the one before.

The New Yorker

A kind of Soviet Dr. Strangelove.

The New York Times

An inventive comedy as black as outer space itself. Makes The Right Stuff look like a NASA handout.

Tibor Fischer