# The Blizzard

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- Book: [The Blizzard](https://www.bookquiver.com/vladimir-sorokin/the-blizzard) ([The Blizzard.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/vladimir-sorokin/the-blizzard.md))
- Authors: [Vladimir Sorokin](https://www.bookquiver.com/vladimir-sorokin)
- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-02-4135-513-8
- Pages: 192
- Published: 2018-11-01
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Garin, a country doctor, is desperately trying to reach the village of Dolgoye, where a mysterious epidemic is transforming the villagers into zombies. He has with him a vaccine which will prevent the spread of this epidemic, but a terrible blizzard turns his journey into the stuff of nightmare. A trip that should take hours turns into a metaphysical odyssey, in which he encounters strange beasts, apparitions, hallucinations and dangerous fellow men. Trapped in this existential storm, Sorokin's characters fight their way through a landscape that owes as much to Chekhov's 19th-century Russia as it does to near-future, post-apocalyptic literature. Fantastical, comic and richly drawn, The Blizzard at once answers to the canon of Russian writers and makes a fierce statement about life in contemporary Russia.