The Crying Lot 49

Thomas Pynchon - alongside Salinger, «the great American recluse», one of the greatest writers of world literature of the 20th and now the 21st century, has been unanimously recognized as a classic at the level of Nabokov, Joyce, and Borges... from his very first publications. «The Crying Lot 49» - an intellectual mystery novel, a metaphysical detective story, and a postmodern mystery. Pynchon develops his favorite themes of universal conspiracy and social paranoia with virtuoso compactness. The main character one fine day discovers that she has been appointed as the executor of the estate of her former lover - a California magnate. And soon terrifying revelations begin to multiply at a geometric rate, while random words and symbols point to an omnipotent secret organization that traces its origins back to medieval Europe... «Virtuoso prose, Joycean intricate symbolism, the quest for the Holy Grail in a new way - this is what „The Crying Lot 49“ is all about» (Chicago Tribune). The translation is published in a new edition.