Telluria by Vladimir Sorokin non-fiction and living as Abdulla now

and living as Abdulla now does

the Armenian Nagorno-Karabakh region

progress toward Communism was increasingly measured by the health of its citizens' personal finances

Shtetl Love Song is a requiem for the pre-war Jewish shtetl

Telluria by Vladimir Sorokin non-fiction and living as Abdulla nowTelluria is set in the future, when a devastating holy war between Europe and Islam has succeeded in returning the world to the torpor and disorganization of the Middle Ages. Europe, China and Russia have all broken up. The people of the world now live in an array of little nations that are like puzzle pieces, each cultivating its own ideology or identity, a neo feudal world of fads and feuds, in which no one power dominates. What does, however,