num_pages: 154
description: Victor Pelevin's novel Omon Ra has been widely praised for its poetry and its wickedness, a novel in line with the great works of Gogol and Bulgakov. Omon is chosen to be trained in the Soviet space program the fulfillment of his lifelong dream. However, he enrolls only to encounter the terrifying absurdity of Soviet protocol and its backward technology: a bicycle-powered moonwalker; the outrageous Colonel Urgachin; and a one-way assignment to the moon.
language: English
title: Omon Ra
titlecomplete: Omon Ra
genres: 20th Century, Russia, Historical Fiction, Dystopia, Novels, Science Fiction, Literature, Russian Literature, Fiction, Contemporary
ratings_count: 8449
awards: awardedAt: 725875200000
name: Интерпресскон
category: Средняя форма
publisher: New Directions