Victor Pelevin: Empire V

Pelevin's novels are always metaphors for our time, and when times repeat themselves, reading them becomes especially interesting. Written nearly ten years ago, the novel has not lost its relevance today. The world is ruled by vampires.
Not eternally young, romantic boys and girls with sleepless eyes and bloody lips, but quite ordinary men and women with traces of worldly cynicism on their faces. They alone know the secret of "glamour" and "discourse." And they are the true global elite, recruiting passersby into their ranks with a single light bite.
The choice can fall on anyone... The young man Roma is presented with a "real chance to enter the elite," and he becomes the vampire Rama. All his new colleagues bear the names of gods—because they stand above humans in the world hierarchy. How exactly vampires control people, Rama will learn at special lectures on glamour and discourse, at his first tasting, and at the celebration of the Day of the Fall.

Author: Victor Pelevin

Pages: 416 (newsprint). Paperback

Dimensions: 178x115x17 mm

Series: Azbooka-Classics