The Clay Machine-Gun
ABOUT
THE BOOK
Pyotr Voyd, a leading St. Petersburg poet, unexpectedly finds himself commissar to the legendary commander Chapaev and his formidable machine-gunner sidekick, Anna, in the 1919 Civil War. But what is the secret of her machine-gun? Why does Pyotr keep waking to find himself in a psychiatric hospital in 1990’s Moscow? And where does Arnold Schwarzenegger fit into all this? The Clay Machine-Gun is unlike any other novel, demonstrating Pelevin’s genius for metaphysical comedy and manic satire. It is an intellectually dazzling and hilarious fantasy about identity and Russian history, and a spectacular elaboration of Buddhist philosophy.
ABOUT
THE TRANSLATOR Andrew
Bromfield
Andrew Bromfield is a British editor and translator of Russian works. He is a founding editor of the Russian literature journal Glas, and has translated into English works by Boris Akunin, Vladimir Voinovich, Irina Denezhkina, Victor Pelevin, and Sergei Lukyanenko, among other writers.
Andrew Bromfield is a British editor and translator of Russian works. He is a founding editor of the Russian literature journal Glas, and has translated into English works by Boris Akunin, Vladimir Voinovich, Irina Denezhkina, Victor Pelevin, and Sergei Lukyanenko, among other writers.