Description
Omon Ra is a satirical science-fiction novel about a young man whose lifelong dream is to become a Soviet cosmonaut. Omon is selected for the space programme and eventually chosen for a secret mission to the dark side of the Moon, but his heroic ambitions soon collide with the terrifying absurdity of Soviet protocol and the limitations of its technology.
With its bicycle-powered moonwalker, bizarre military figures and increasingly surreal mission, Victor Pelevin turns the Soviet space programme into a darkly comic world of sacrifice, propaganda and absurdity. The novel combines black humour and political satire with the strange, dreamlike quality associated with the works of Gogol and Bulgakov.
