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posted by [personal profile] kgbooklog at 10:26pm on 18/07/2007 under , ,
Vladimir Sorokin, Jamey Gambrell (trans.), Ice
New York Review Books (2006) ISBN: 1-59017-195-0
Score: 0

An urban fantasy set in Russia, about a cult of blond-haired, blue-eyed people who recruit new members by hitting them in the chest with a hammer made of ice until they pass out and their heart whispers their true name. And that's about all I learned from reading the first third of the book; the blurbs claim the hammers are made of interstellar ice, which is pretty unbelievable (especially since each hammer can only be used once). It didn't help that none of the characters were likable, and each had at least three names to keep track of, and we never spent much time with any of them. In hindsight, I wish I'd noticed the word "postmodern" on the back cover.

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