Imagen 1 de 1

Foto genérica

Monday Starts on Saturday by Boris Strugatsky: New - Imagen 1 de 1

Monday Starts on Saturday by Boris Strugatsky and Arkady Strugatsky (2017, Trade Paperback)

AlibrisBooks (457461)

98,5% de votos positivos

Precio:

USD17,38

Aproximadamente14,97 EUR

+ USD15,56 de envío

Entrega prevista: jue. 10 jul. - mar. 22 jul.

Devoluciones:

30 días para devoluciones. El comprador paga el envío de la devolución..

Estado:

Nuevo

New Trade paperback

Acerca de este artículo

Product Identifiers

PublisherChicago Review Press, Incorporated

ISBN-101613739230

ISBN-139781613739235

eBay Product ID (ePID)234380309

Product Key Features

Book TitleMonday Starts on Saturday

Number of Pages304 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicFantasy / General

Publication Year2017

IllustratorYes

GenreFiction

AuthorBoris Strugatsky, Arkady Strugatsky

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.6 in

Item Weight12.3 Oz

Item Length8.5 in

Item Width5.5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2017-018448

Reviews"This melding of bureaucracy and the numinous is highly enjoyable and impossible to compare to any other work."-- P ublishers Weekly, "A comic commentary reflecting Russia of the 60s, the Strugatsky brothers wove a clever tale that made it one of the most popular books in their country, ever."-- Geeks of Doom, " Monday Starts on Saturday is not just an ingenious and gripping read but simply a delight from start to finish. . . . This is a novel with which to fall in love." --Adam Roberts, from his foreword

Afterword byStrugatsky, Boris

SynopsisSasha, a young computer programmer from Leningrad, is driving through the forests of Northwest Russia to meet up with some friends for a nature vacation. He picks up a couple of local hitchhikers, who persuade him to come work with them at the National Institute for the Technology of Witchcraft and Thaumaturgy, or NITWiT. The adventures Sasha has in the largely dysfunctional Institute involve all sorts of magical beings and devices--a wish-granting fish, a talking cat who can remember only the beginnings of stories, a sofa that translates fairy tales into reality, a motorcycle that can zoom into the imagined future, a hungry dog-size mosquito--along with a variety of wizards (including Merlin), vampires, and petty bureaucrats. First published in Russia in 1964, Monday Starts on Saturday has become the most popular Strugatsky novel in the authors' homeland. Like the works of Gogol and Kafka, it tackles the nature of institutions--here focusing on one devoted to discovering and perfecting human happiness. By turns wildly imaginative, hilarious, and disturbing, Monday Starts on Saturday is a comic masterpiece by two of the world's greatest science fiction writers.

LC Classification NumberPG3476.S78835P6613