“ Like many westerners, all I have ever known about Russia came from novels. I have no idea whether the 21st-century Russia that Pelevin shows us is a factual picture; but it has the ring of truth, the same truth as books before it by Gogol, Goncharov, Bulgakov, Zamyatin
— Victor Pelevin’s The Sacred Book of the Werewolf review by Ursula K Le Guin
