Red Pyramid: Selected Stories Sorokin VladimirPaperback

Provocative, hilarious, and tender stories about sex, violence, politics from one of the greatest Russian writers of the post-Soviet era.
Red Pyramid is a sort of "greatest hits" collection of short stories from across Vladimir Sorokin's career, beginning with scatological conceptual texts like "Passing Through" and "An Obelisk"; then plunging into the more even-tempered, but still quite uncanny, delights of his post-Soviet work.
Stories like "A Month in Dachau" earn Sorokin his moniker as the "Russian De Sade," while others, like "Timka," are shockingly tender--despite their graphic depictions of mass shootings and anal sex.
This collection also contains the infamous "Nastya," a story about a family cannibalizing its daughter on the eve of the twentieth century, for which Sorokin was nearly put on trial; "Horse Soup," which was the first translation from the