Empire V

The steam engine is wisely arranged, but it does not realize this, and what would be the purpose of arranging a steam engine if there was no driver? Viktor Pelevin, a master of amazing prose, reveals to us another secret veil, exposing the fantastic and frightening underside of the world. Our world, ruled by vampires. But not those mythical ones who sleep by day in beautiful coffins and live in ancient castles, but real people, occupying all levels of power since ancient times, when there was no power at all. An ordinary nineteen-year-old guy, Roma, accidentally becomes the vampire Rama and plunges headlong into this unknown macrocosm, incomprehensible to simple mortals. The main thing is not to lose the last, having learned the terrible and cruel truth about humanity.

– Reissue of the novel in a new design.
– The book combines Pelevin's trademark irony with a vivid intellectual game – it is one of the writer’s best works, which has become a modern classic.
– «Empire V» — an unusual vampire parable in which ancient mythology meets consumer culture and satire on the nature of power. The vampires here are not monsters from a Gothic novel, but an image of the elite that governs the world through language, symbols, and information flows.
– Series «Light of the Horizon. Prose by Viktor Pelevin». Also read: «Numbers».