# The Queue

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- Book: [The Queue](https://www.bookquiver.com/vladimir-sorokin/the-queue) ([The Queue.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/vladimir-sorokin/the-queue.md))
- Authors: [Vladimir Sorokin](https://www.bookquiver.com/vladimir-sorokin), [Sally Laird](https://www.bookquiver.com/sally-laird)
- Publisher: nyrb_classics
- ISBN: 978-15-9017-274-2
- Pages: 280
- Published: 2008-10-07
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Vladimir Sorokin’s first published novel, The Queue, is a sly comedy about the late Soviet “years of stagnation.” Thousands of citizens are in line for . . . nobody knows quite what,...