Moscow: AST, 2008. 352 pages, hardcover."Marina's Thirtieth Love" is one of Vladimir Sorokin's early novels, written in 1984 and published over the course of 3 years in French in Syntax Magazine. Sorokin left his mark on the literary world with his brand of socialist realism, but was forced to serve in a prison camp for dissidents and the intelligentsia on account of his work. In Russian.