The Queue · 1985
A novel built almost entirely from the voices of a nameless crowd waiting in a vast Soviet queue for some scarce, unnamed goods. Sorokin's first book, where a whole life grows out of the hum of everyday speech.
The Norm · 1994
A book in several parts held together by a recurring ritual motif of late-Soviet life. One of the writer's early conceptual works, where the familiar speech of the era is pushed into the absurd.
Roman · 1994
A large novel written in the manner of nineteenth-century Russian classic prose, about a young man who comes to a country estate. A work in which the familiar language of the classics slowly changes the nature of the story.
