Numbers. The Sacred Book of the Werewolf. T

Victor Pelevin is one of the most famous contemporary writers. The novels of the 2000s collected in this volume have significantly influenced the development of Russian literature in the new century. They are characterized by the intertwining of reality with phantasmagoria, eccentricity of plot, and the combination of heterogeneous techniques.
Banker Stepa has served the number 34 all his life – even in his youth, he preferred Bon Jovi to all other groups; he was also afraid of the number 43 and the Battle of Kursk. The approach of his own forty-third birthday fills him with horror, and meeting another banker – an adherent of the number 43 – threatens terrifying consequences.
And Huli is an ancient Chinese fox-werewolf, two thousand years old. She tells the story of her life among the tailless monkeys of Moscow while simultaneously writing the Sacred Book, where the main secret of all werewolves is revealed. And Huli is a master of illusions, but one day she meets someone who is not subject to her hypnosis: a wolf-werewolf with an FSB certificate...
Count T. leaves Yasnaya Polyana disguised as a priest, hiding his favorite revolver under his cassock. He is heading toward a mysterious area called "Optina Pustyn." Overcoming obstacles and sweeping away enemies with the techniques of the secret struggle of "neznas" (non-resistance to evil by violence), he approaches his goal, not yet understanding either the meaning or the reasons for his dangerous journey. What he learns will turn his world upside down.