{"title":"Books by Tatyana Tolstaya","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9781590171967","title":"The Slynx","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew in Paperback\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A postmodern literary masterpiece.” –\u003ci\u003eThe Times Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTwo hundred years after civilization ended in an event known as the Blast, Benedikt isn’t one to complain. He’s got a job—transcribing old books and presenting them as the words of the great new leader, Fyodor Kuzmich, Glorybe—and though he doesn’t enjoy the privileged status of a Murza, at least he’s not a serf or a half-human four-legged Degenerator harnessed to a troika. He has a house, too, with enough mice to cook up a tasty meal, and he’s happily free of mutations: no extra fingers, no gills, no cockscombs sprouting from his eyelids. And he’s managed—at least so far—to steer clear of the ever-vigilant Saniturions, who track down anyone who manifests the slightest sign of Freethinking, and the legendary screeching Slynx that waits in the wilderness beyond.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     Tatyana Tolstaya’s \u003ci\u003eThe Slynx\u003c\/i\u003e reimagines dystopian fantasy as a wild, horripilating amusement park ride. Poised between Nabokov’s \u003ci\u003ePale Fire\u003c\/i\u003e and Burgess’s \u003ci\u003eA Clockwork Orange\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Slynx\u003c\/i\u003e is a brilliantly inventive and shimmeringly ambiguous work of art: an account of a degraded world that is full of echoes of the sublime literature of Russia’s past; a grinning portrait of human inhumanity; a tribute to art in both its sovereignty and its helplessness; a vision of the past as the future in which the future is now.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56304739189109,"sku":"9781590171967","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781590171967_fcb4fc04-b216-482c-a7dd-ec635964ba6f.jpg?v=1786034395"},{"product_id":"9781911547358","title":"Aetherial Worlds","description":"\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback \/ softback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56308975468917,"sku":"9781911547358","price":11.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781911547358_3ec319bf-6773-4e9a-b218-f744704c260a.jpg?v=1786029120"}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-tatyana-tolstaya.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}