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The Life of Insects

The Life of Insects

( Russian - Zhizn' nasekomykh ( Жизнь насекомых ) - 1993 )

novel by Victor Pelevin

translated by Andrew Bromfield

Published: Harbord Publishing Limited - trade paperback - 1996 ( UK )
ISBN:1899414207 / 9781899414208

Farrar Straus & Giroux - hardback - 1998 ( US )
ISBN: 0374186251 / 9780374186258

Faber and Faber - paperback - 1999
ISBN: 0571194052 / 9780571194056

Penguin Books - trade paperback - 1999
ISBN: 0140279725 / 9780140279726


synopsis
While discussing business prospects in the Crimea, a trio of investors from Russia and America suddenly metamorphise into mosquitoes searching for sucrose, this is a disorienting novel that makes the purpose of life for insects a universal goal. Set in a crumbling Soviet Black Sea resort it has a motley cast of characters who exist simultaneously as human beings ( racketeers, mystics, drug addicts and prostitutes ) and insects.

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