A Hu-Li is a two-thousand-year old shapeshifting werefox from ancient China who follows the Supreme Tao - a secret teaching of immortal werefoxes - which leads to complete liberation from life and death. On the surface, however, she's a lascivious fifteen-year-old Moscow prostitute who seduces men in order to absorb their life force. Despite her work as a prostitute she has remained a virgin, as she simply hypnotizes her clients by means of her tail - an organ that puts men in a trance in which they dream they are having sex with her. Being a virgin has become a bit of a psychological problem for A Hu-Li despite all her spiritual sophistication. Enter Alexander, a high-ranking officer in the Russian security services who also happens to be a Wagner-addicted werewolf and the key figure in Russia's Big Oil...What is the secret of A Hu-Li's immortality? What is the difference between the transformation of perception and the perception of transformation, and what does either have to do with werewolves, werefoxes and modern marketing techniques? What dark secret lies behind Russia's new riches? Is Alexander the legendary "super-werewolf" who understands the nothing that can become anything at all? How does A Hu-Li ultimately achieve her freedom? These and other quandaries are revealed in this ingenious work of the imagination. Both a supernatural love story and an outrageously funny and satirical portrait of modern Russia, The Sacred Book of the Werewolf is Victor Pelevin's sharpest and most engrossing work to date.

Book details

• Format Paperback
• Pages335 pages
• LanguageEnglish
• ISBN100670019887
• ISBN139780670019885