num_pages: 352
description: Russian novelist Victor Pelevin is rapidly establishing himself as one of the most brilliant young writers at work today. His comic inventiveness and mind-bending talent prompted Time magazine to proclaim him a "psychedelic Nabokov for the cyber-age." In his third novel, Buddha's Little Finger , Pelevin has created an intellectually dazzling tale about identity and Russian history, as well as a spectacular elaboration of Buddhist philosophy. Moving between events of the Russian Civil War of 1919 and the thoughts of a man incarcerated in a contemporary Moscow psychiatric hospital, Buddha's Little Finger is a work of demonic absurdism by a writer who continues to delight and astonish.
language: English
title: Buddha's Little Finger
titlecomplete: Buddha's Little Finger
genres: Russia, Humor, Philosophy, Novels, Literature, Russian Literature, Fantasy, Fiction, Contemporary, Magical Realism
ratings_count: 6712
awards: awardedAt: 978336000000
name: Dublin Literary Award
category: Shortlist
publisher: Penguin Books