The Blizzard

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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Copyright © 2010 by Vladimir Sorokin

Translation copyright © 2015 by Jamey Gambrell

All rights reserved

Originally published in 2010 by Astrel, Russia, as Метель

Published in the United States by Farrar, Straus and Giroux

First American edition, 2015

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

[Metel′. English]

The blizzard: a novel / Vladimir Sorokin; translated by Jamey Gambrell. — First American edition.

pages cm

Published in Russian under the title Метель.

ISBN 978-0-374-11437-4 (hardback) — ISBN 978-0-374-70939-6 (e-book)

1. Dystopias—Fiction. 2. Psychological fiction. I. Gambrell, Jamey, translator. II. Title.

PG3488 . O66 M4813 2015

891.73'5—dc23

2015010964

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