After the critically acclaimed and award-winning novel "The Snowstorm," Vladimir Sorokin presents his magnum opus: "Telluria" is a stunning literary tour de force through a present filled with violence, uncertainty, and new promises of salvation, which is alarmingly similar to our own - even if almost everything is quite different. Eurasia, mid-21st century: After religious wars, revolutions, and uprisings, the continent between the Atlantic and the Pacific has fragmented into isolated microstates. Russia has fallen into a deep slumber, Moscow has switched to potato gas, and an enlightened theocratic-communofeudal regime is in power, while the surrounding areas are under Chinese control. In Cologne, after three years of Taliban rule, Carnival is celebrated once again. The dwarf state USSR, Stalinist Socialist Soviet Republic, an oligarch's creation, has become a paradise for Lin.