{"product_id":"9780143116035","title":"The Sacred Book of the Werewolf: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe world's first Zen Buddhist paranormal romance-published to coincide with Halloween\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne of the most progressive writers at work today, Victor Pelevin's comic inventiveness has won him comparisons to Kafka, Calvino, and Gogol, and \u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e has described him as a 'psychedelic Nabokov for the cyberage.' In \u003ci\u003eThe Sacred Book of the Werewolf\u003c\/i\u003e, a smash success in Russia and Pelevin's first novel in six years, paranormal meets transcendental with a splash of satire as A Hu-Li, a two-thousand-year-old shape-shifting werefox from ancient China meets her match in Alexander, a Wagner-addicted werewolf who's the key figure in Russia's Big Oil. Both a supernatural love story and an outrageously funny send-up of modern Russia, this stunning and ingenious work of the imagination is the sharpest novel to date from Russia's most gifted literary malcontent.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47016136999152,"sku":"9780143116035","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780143116035_p0.jpg?v=1763657188","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780143116035","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}