Victor Pelevin’s books include Omon Ra (Faber/Farrar, Straus & Giroux), The Clay Machine-Gun and The Life of Insects (both Faber).
‘That's why they're able to live like normal human beings, he thought, because they never forget about their duty. They don't spend all their time getting pissed like folks here.’
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