A review by walkerct
Telluria by Vladimir Sorokin

adventurous challenging dark funny mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

2.0

I am a free woman. Neither people nor the city have caught hold of my freedom. I was born into a dark city and my father and mother conceived me in a stone coffin. My mother gave birth to me in that same stone coffin. All city people live in stone coffins. They are born into stone coffins, they live in them, then they die in them. And those who have died are transferred into wooden coffins so that the earth shall swallow them for all time. Is it worth living only so's to be transferred from one coffin to the next? Is it worth living only so's to satisfy one's slow stone-coffin desires? Is it worth living only so's to deafen our desires in the stone coffins of our cities?