Read by Aleksandr Andrienko. Duration: 4 hours, 10 min.In his first novel, "Omon Ra", Pelevin traces the absurd fate of the fictional protagonist, named Omon by his policeman father, placing him in circumstances both completely fantastic and very recognizable in their everyday detail. He uses it to illustrate the underlying absurdity of the Soviet establishment with its fixation on "heroic achievements" in those fields of human endeavor which could be most easily shown off to the outside world -- science, the military, and especially space exploration.
