Blue Lard

«Blue Lard» — a cult book by Vladimir Sorokin, one of the most influential writers of our time, a novel about Russian literature as trauma and Soviet history as a prolonged farce. Behind the futuristic description of an alternative USSR lies a ruthlessly accurate conversation about power, violence, and obsession with the past.

Provocative, funny, brutal, and brilliantly written, the novel shatters all beloved myths. The regime responds with the only thing it is capable of — bans: after the release of «Blue Lard», a criminal case was opened against the author, and this year the novel was removed from sale.