The worldâ"s first Zen Buddhist paranormal romanceâ?published to coincide with Halloween One of the most progressive writers at work today, Victor Pelevinâ"s comic inventiveness has won him comparisons to Kafka, Calvino, and Gogol, and Time has described him as a â?psychedelic Nabokov for the cyberage.â? In The Sacred Book of the Werewolf, a smash success in Russia and Pelevinâ"s first novel in six years, paranormal meets transcendental with a splash of satire as A Hu-Li, a two-thousand-year-old shape-shifting werefox from ancient China meets her match in Alexander, a Wagner-addicted werewolf whoâ"s the key figure in Russiaâ"s Big Oil. Both a supernatural love story and an outrageously funny send-up of modern Russia, this stunning and ingenious work of the imagination is the sharpest novel to date from Russiaâ"s most gifted literary malcontent.