Telluriia - Sorokin V.

Vladimir Sorokin's novel is a view of the future of Europe, which, despite the dramatic changes in the world and the human structure, seems very clear and real. Recognizable and unrecognizable peacefully coexist on the bright tapestry of the New Middle Ages, populated by dogs and centaurs, small people and giants, crusaders and Orthodox communists. Infinitely different large and small nations, re-shuffled and divided into principalities, khans, republics and kingdoms, there is, as in the Middle Ages of the last millennium, one thing in common - the search for the absolute, the kingdom of God on earth. Only not to the Kingdom of Presbyterian John are now turned to the eyes of the seekers, but to the Republic of Telluria, to its deposits of magic metal, which brings happiness.