The blue lantern and other stories
By: Victor Pelevin ; translated from the Russian by Andrew Bromfield.
Contributors: Bromfield, Andrew.
Publisher: New Directions
Published: 1997
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 179
Subjects: Pelevin, Viktor -- Translations into English.
Description: In the title story, kids in a Pioneer camp tell terrifying bedtime stories; in "Hermit and Six-Toes," two chickens are obsessed with the nature of the universe as viewed from their poultry plant; the young communist league activists of "Mid-Game" change their sex to become hard-currency prostitutes; and "The Life and Adventures of Shed #XII" is the story of a storage hut whose dream is to become a bicycle.
Table of contents: title: News from Nepal; title: Hermit & Six-Toes; title: Crystal world; title: Nika; title: Mid-game; title: The life and adventures of Shed Number XII; title: Blue lantern; title: Tambourine of the Upper World.