Babylon
Author: Victor Pelevin
As a poet, Tartarsky is a failure. As a copywriter for one of Moscow’s biggest advertising firms he makes $2,000 in ten minutes – and that’s before the cocaine kicks in. But as Tartarsky speeds through a surreal world of PR mercenaries, back-door deals and Zen Buddhism, he begins to suspect the disturbing truth behind it all – as suggested to him by the disembodied voice o….Read More
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