The Snail on the Slope
Editorial ORION FICTION
Mainland Spain
- Publisher ORION FICTION
- ISBN13 9781473228283
- ISBN10 147322828X
- Type Book
- Pages 272
- Published 2021
- Language English
- Bookbinding Paperback
Sections
Scifi / Horror / FantasiaThe Snail on the Slope
Editorial ORION FICTION
Mainland Spain
Book Details
ENTER THE ADMINISTRATION Peretz spends his days navigating the bureaucracy of the Administration, the institute tasked with governing the Forest below. Except no one ever seems to go there, and his attempts only trap him further within the workings of this strange organisation. ENTER THE FORESTCandide cannot remember how he got to the Forest, and he is certain he belongs somewhere else.
Determined to escape, he finds that all paths lead him round strange bends and into encounters with bizarre creatures. NOTHING IS AS IT SEEMSThis classic SF novel sees Boris and Arkady Strugatsky meditate on how little man can understand of the wider world, and in doing so produce one of the great literary works to come out of Soviet Russia.