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The Snail on the Slope

The Snail on the Slope( )
Author: Strugatsky, Arkady
Strugatsky, Boris
Afterword by: Strugatsky, Boris
Translator: Bormashenko, Olena
Read by: Ciulla, Chris Andrew
ISBN:978-1-5385-1513-6
Publication Date:Aug 2018
Publisher:Blackstone Audio, Incorporated
Book Format:CD-Audio
List Price:USD $90.00
Book Description:

The Snail on the Slope takes place in two distinct worlds. One is the Administration, an institution run by a surreal, Kafkaesque bureaucracy whose aim is to govern the forest below. The other is the Forest, a place of fear, weird creatures, primitive people, and violence. Peretz, who works at the Administration, wants to visit the Forest. Candide crashed in the Forest years ago and wants to return to the Administration.

Their journeys are surprising and strange, and...
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Author Biography
Strugatsky, Arkady (Author)
Popular science-fiction writers, the Strugatsky brothers have used the genre since the 1960s to comment on contemporary society, at times provoking major controversy. It's Hard to Be a God (1964) is a dysutopia with commentary on historical theories. The Snail on the Slope (1966--68) features a KGB-like organization and an extraordinarily oppressive atmosphere. Pre-glasnost, glasnost, some of the Strugatskys' major works had to be circulated in samizdat, but the brothers' situation is now dramatically better. 020



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