V. Novel

Thomas Pynchon — alongside Salinger, the «great American recluse», one of the foremost writers of world literature of the 20th, and now 21st century, unanimously recognized as a classic on par with Nabokov, Joyce, and Borges right after his debut publications. In his debut novel «V.», awarded the Faulkner Prize and included in the shortlist for the National Book Award in the USA, readers were introduced to Pynchon's distinctive obsession with global conspiracies and the hidden springs of history — and were forever enchanted. Here the paths of Benny Profane, «the schlemiel and animated yo-yo», intersect with a group of New York bohemians known as the Whole Sick Crew, and Herbert Stencil, who, across many countries and decades, follows the trail of the elusive V. — whether a woman or an idea... The translation is published in a new edition.