ICE TRILOGY (2011) SIGNED by Vladimir Sorokin & Translator First/First Printing

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Signed by Vladimir Sorokin and Jamey Gambrell, the translator , Brand New, First Edition, First Printing, Paperback Original, List : $19.95, 694 pages There is no English hardcover edition of Ice Trilogy . Ice Trilogy by Vladimir Sorokin (August 7, 1955 - present) Translated from the Russian by Jamey Gambrell Sorokin trained as an engineer at the Moscow Institute of Oil and Gas, but turned to art and writing, becoming a major presence in the Moscow underground of the 1980s. His work was banned in the Soviet Union, and his first novel, The Queue , was published by the famed émigré dissident Andrei Sinyavsky in France in 1983. In 1992, Sorokin’s Coll ected Stories was nominated for the Russian Booker Prize; in 1999, the publication of the controversial novel Blue Lard , wh ich included a sex scene between clones of Stalin and Khrushchev, led to public demonstrations against the book and to demands that Sorokin be prosecuted as a pornographer; in 2001, he received the Andrei Biely Award for outstanding contributions to Russian literature. Sorokin is also the author of the screenplays for the movies Moscow , Th e Kopeck , and 4 , and of the libretto for Leonid Desyatnikov’s Rosenthal’s Children , th e first new opera to be commissioned by the Bolshoi Theater since the 1970s. He has written numerous plays and short stories, and his work has been translated throughout the world. Among his most recent books are Sugar Kremlin and Day of the Oprichnik . Sorokin is a devout Christian , having been baptized at the age of 25. Three days after the February 24, 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine , Sorokin published a piece highly critical of Vladimir Putin . In it he compared Putin to Ivan the Terrible and power in Russia to a medieval pyramid. He has been living in exile in Berlin since the invasion. Ice Trilogy was published on March 15, 2011. First Edition, First Printing, hand SIGNED , in my presence, to full title page. From an event featuring Vladimir Sorokin in conversation with Keith Gessen at a PEN America event at The Cooper Union's Frederick P. Rose Auditorium on April 30, 2011 in New York City. No inscription; full signature only. BONUS: Copies of three book reviews of Ice Trilogy (see photo 12) are included. Please only bid if you will pay within five days of auction's end. All domestic sales of $25 or more will be wrapped and shipped in a box. If requested, there is a $1.00 surcharge for all domestic orders below $25 shipped in a box. Shipping & Handling for USPS Media Mail is $5.49 (includes USPS Tracking ). Additional books shipped together via USPS Media Mail are $1.50 per book. Shipping & Handling for USPS Priority Mail Flat Rate envelope is $9.95 (includes USPS Tracking ). Shipping & Handling for USPS Priority Mail International Flat Rate envelope is $46.95. I provide the highest quality author signed, first edition books. 100% authentic guaranteed - This is my COA "Certificate of Authenticity". I won't sell any signed book that I'm not 100% sure is hand signed by the author. I attended this event featuring Vladimir Sorokin in conversation with Keith Gessen at a PEN America event at The Cooper Union's Frederick P. Rose Auditorium on April 30, 2011 in New York City. I'm not happy unless you are! Please email any questions. Thanks! Book Description In 1908, deep in Siberia, it fell to earth. THEIR ICE. A young man on a scientific expedition found it. It spoke to his heart, and his heart named him Bro. Bro felt the Ice. Bro knew its purpose. To bring together the 23,000 blond, blue-eyed Brothers and Sisters of the Light who were scattered on earth. To wake their sleeping hearts. To return to the Light. To destroy this world. And secretly, throughout the twentieth century and up to our own day, the Children of the Light have pursued their beloved goal. Pulp fiction, science fiction, New Ageism, pornography, video-game mayhem, old-time Communist propaganda, and rampant commercial hype all collide, splinter, and splatter in Vladimir Sorokin’s virtuosic Ice Trilogy , a crazed joyride through modern times with the promise of a truly spectacular crash at the end. And the reader, as eager for the redemptive fix of a good story as the Children are for the Primordial Light, has no choice except to go along, caught up in a brilliant illusion from which only illusion escapes intact. from Publishers Weekly Sorokin's epic trilogy, originally published between 2002 and 2005, expands the enigma of the 1908 Tunguska meteorite blast into an impressive merger of metaphysical fantasia and gritty conspiracy thriller. Following the impact, select humans realize they are actually cosmic entities and form a group called the Brotherhood in hopes of finding the way back to the Light. Though the relatively weak first book, Bro, is crippled by an excess of overwrought prose, Ice is a spectacular achievement, vividly exposing the eventual corruption and brutality surrounding even the noblest of goals, while 23,000 moves effectively outward to encompass those who fight to uncover and defeat the Brotherhood in a tense race against time. Though very slow to develop and marred somewhat by irritating redundancies and areas where disbelief is difficult to suspend, Ice Trilogy builds into both a gripping story and an impressive metaphorical window into the 20th-century Soviet experience, offering substantial rewards to the patient and thoughtful reader. (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved. "Sorokin completed the three novels of the Ice Trilogy in 2008. Now, thanks to a translation by Jamey Gambrell that heroically endeavours to capture its myriad voices, from watercolour lyricism to purest pulp, we can enjoy it in all its gaudy glory. Think William S Burroughs, and Michel Houellebecq, and Will Self, all whizzed into this delirious post-Soviet SF mash-up. I found some sections absolutely exquisite, some unexpectedly moving, some intellectually exhilarating - and plenty just grotesque and absurd, as Sorokin no doubt planned.... Ice Trilogy becomes extraordinary when Sorokin drives this old dystopian banger off the fantasy highway and into the darkest places of the Russian – and European – 20th century. In one bravura set-piece after another, he not only re-visits key tragedies of modern times, but mimics – or re-voices – the literary styles that partner them. .... In the first volume, Bro , we begin in Chekhov territory...The middle volume, Ice , begins in the 1990s with an outlandish parody not so much of Russian life in the heyday of Yeltsin and the oligarchs as the West's cartoon representation of it.....Then in one of Sorokin's trademark lurches, we switch back to a noble Vasily Grossman-esque wartime drama... In the final part, 23,000, these wilful collisions grow more extreme. A Spielberg-style finale leaves us frozen in the postmodern fix...." --Boyd Tonkin, The Independent “So we yearn for certainty, salvation, the absolute-what's wrong with that? We always have and we always will. Go ahead, Sorokin seems to say; you can't really help it. Just be careful what you wish for. . . . Those readers (and reviewers) who turn to literature for consolation, or moral enlightenment, or lessons in self-esteem, are well advised to look elsewhere.” - -Christian Caryl, The New York Review of Books “ Ice Trilogy i s devoted to the fortunes of an apocalyptic Brotherhood whose members believe they are bodily incarnations of a primordial light. But they are only made aware of their true identity be being ‘awakened’, in a process that involves being bashed in the chest with a hammer made of ice….The fact that the readers see events through the Brotherhood’s eyes is a powerful estranging device: we are forced to accept as legitimate the perspective of delusional psychopaths, and constantly made to reread history from their point of view. This is the most provocative aspect of Ice Trilogy : its aspiration to unsettle conventional historical narratives.” –-Tony Wood, London Review of Books Sorokin's Ice Trilogy is a fearless work from contemporary Russia's most imaginative writer. Sorokin pushes against the boundaries of religion and philosophy with results that are unforgettable, transfixing, and often scarily funny. —Gary Shteyngart Starting in the 1980s, Vladimir Sorokin has been writing the necessary novel, the precise parable, for each new stage of Russia's history. To read Sorokin today is to realize the power language exercises over us, and not just in the East. Styles clash in Sorokin's work: and we see what are claimed to be absolute truths from new angles along with the affinities that unite their different myths. —Ingo Schulze