Victor Pelevin,Andrew Bromfield
After auditioning for the part as a singing geisha at a dubious bar, Lena and eleven other â€œluckyâ€ girls are sent to work at a posh underground nightclub reserved exclusively for Russiaâ€™s upper-crust elite. They are to be a sideshow attraction to the rest of the clubâ€™s entertainment, and are billed as the â€œfamous singing caryatids.â€ Things only get weirder from there. Secret ointments, praying mantises, sexual escapades, and grotesque murder are quickly ushered into the plot. The Russian literary master Victor Pelevin holds nothing back, and ,The Hall of the Singing Caryatids,, his most recent story to be translated into English, is sure to make you squirm in your seat with utter delight.
Fiction,Cultural,Russia,Novella,Literature,Russian Literature,Science Fiction,Magical Realism,Contemporary
The Hall of the Singing Caryatids