Omon Ra [Paperback]

Victor Pelevin's novelAnd in its final moments, about what happens when this poor boy actually finds himself rocketing toward the moon, are surely the most memorable passages I read this year.A freshly jaundiced view of a distorted world.Pelevin is a master absurdist, a brilliant satirist of all things Soviet, but also of things human: our corruptible dreams, petty squabbles, half-assed inventions and, above all, our tendency to allow the purer parts of our nature to be co-opted. An inventive comedy as black as outer space itself. Makes