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Translator
  
Jamey Gambrell

Publication date
  
2005

Preceded by
  
Ice (Sorokin novel)

Author
  
Vladimir Sorokin

Publisher
  
Zakharov Books

Published in english
  
2011

Language
  
Russian

Published in English
  
2011

Originally published
  
2005

Genre
  
Speculative fiction

Country
  
Russia

Vladimir Sorokin books
  
Bro, Ice, Goluboe salo, Ice Trilogy, Day of the Oprichnik

23,000 is a 2005 novel by the Russian writer Vladimir Sorokin. The story is set in a brutal Russia of the near future, where a meteor has provided a mysterious cult with a material which can make people's hearts speak. The book is the final part in Sorokin's Ice Trilogy; it was preceded by Ice from 2002 and Bro from 2004. It first appeared in an omnibus volume with the whole trilogy.

Reception

Boyd Tonkin of The Independent highlighted the book's themes of collapse, and wrote: "Yet somehow this deliberate fictional train-wreck never loses its gobsmacking audacity, or skimps on suspense."

References

23,000 Wikipedia