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About the product Children of Ice … They can communicate with each other without words, they have infiltrated all countries and all organizations, they want to destroy everyone who is different from them. Three bright, shocking and with unsurpassed skill written novels from one of the main troublemakers in Russian literature. Any work by Vladimir Sorokin inevitably causes a real storm, and not only in literary circles. His polemical, shocking and not recognizing any framework novels evoke a variety of feelings, from delight and adoration to rejection and deepest indignation. And absolutely, no matter how you feel about Sorokin’s work, you will not be able to pass by this trilogy in the study of modern literature. The story of a cosmic substance that came to Earth along with a meteorite, and of people awakened by this substance, turned out to be Sorokin-like deep, grotesque and full of allusions. Here and the secret order of supermen, who consider everyone else «meat machines», and the clash of elitism with the consumer society, and political satire. The high side by side with the low, the sacred with the carnal, and the boundaries of the accessible, like the concept of the norm, are as blurred as possible. And, of course, the traditional insignia of Sorokin’s prose: a magnificent style, vivid dialogues, an exciting and completely unpredictable plot that unites all three novels. Annotation The ice trilogy is made up of three novels related to each other: «Bro’s Way», «Ice» and «23000». The young meteorologist Alexander in 1921 went on an expedition to the place of the meteorite fall. Here he discovers the mysterious Ice. Touching the cosmic substance «awakens» him. He creates the Brotherhood of Light and is engaged in the awakening of more and more of its members with the help of the «ice hammer». All of them know how to «speak with their hearts» and treat ordinary «unawakened» people — «meat machines» with contempt. They are being implemented in all countries and in all large organizations. In our time, the Brotherhood of Light, now numbering 23,000 members, has become a colossal corporation LЁD, pursuing its interests, which are very far from humanistic ideals. …
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