Series: Contemporary prose. Read by Aleksandr Andrienko. 1 CD - MP3; Duration: 5 hours, 47 min.Set during the advent of perestroika, "The Yellow Arrow" is a surreal, satirical novella by critically acclaimed Viktor Pelevin. The novel traces the fate of the passengers on the Yellow Arrow, a long-distance Russian train headed for a ruined bridge, a train without an end or a beginning--and it makes no stops. Andrei, the mystic passenger, has begun to look for a way to get off, but life in the carriages goes on as always. This important young Russian author's first American translation garnered rave reviews.