The Maya pill

In the traditions of Victor Pelevin and Vladimir Sorokin, German Sadulaevs follow-up to his acclaimed I am a Chechen!is set in a twenty-first century Russia, phantasmagorical and violent.

A bitingly funny twenty-first century satire,The Maya Pill tells the story of a mid-level manager at a frozen-food import company who comes upon a box of psychotropic pills thats accidentally been slipped into a shipment.

He takes one, and disappears down the rabbit hole: entering the mind of a Chinese colleague; dreaming that he is one of the rulers of an ancient kingdom; even beleiving he is in negotiations with the devil.

A mind-expanding companion to the great Russian classics, The Maya Pill is strange, savage, bizarre, and uproarious.