P5: Farewell Songs of the Political Pygmies of Pindostan (P5)

Viktor Olegovich Pelevin is a Russian writer, postmodernist, and recipient of numerous awards. He was born into the family of a lecturer at the Bauman Moscow State Technical University military department and the head of a grocery store section. For some time he lived in a communal apartment on Tverskoy Boulevard; later the family moved to its own three-room apartment in Northern Chertanovo, where, if the media are to be believed, the writer still lives and even registered as an individual entrepreneur at the local branch of the Pension Fund.

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