{"product_id":"9781590171967","title":"The Slynx","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew in Paperback\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A postmodern literary masterpiece.” –\u003ci\u003eThe Times Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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.  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTatyana 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"New York Review Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47035129037040,"sku":"9781590171967","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781590171967_p0.jpg?v=1763809577","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781590171967","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}