Day of the Oprichnik

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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Copyright © 2006 by Vladimir Sorokin

Translation copyright © 2011 by Jamey Gambrell

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Originally published in 2006 by Zakharov, Russia, as Den’ oprichnika

Published in the United States by Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Sorokin, Vladimir, 1955–

[Den’ oprichnika. English]

Day of the oprichnik / Vladimir Sorokin; translated [from the Russian] by Jamey Gambrell. — 1st American ed.

p. cm.

Originally published in Russia as Den’ oprichnika.

ISBN: 978-1-4299-9491-0

I. Gambrell, Jamey. II. Title.

PG3488.O66D4613 2011

891.73—dc22

2010039060

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