<b>Vladimir</b> <b>Sorokin [is] Russia's most inventive contemporary author</b>
- Masha Gessen, New York Times Book Review
<b>Vladimir Sorokin is one of Russia's greatest writers, and this novel is one of his best</b>. <i>Day of the Oprichnik </i>is a <b>haunting and terrifying</b> vision of modern Russia projected two decades into the future - or maybe not the future at all. <b>A joy to read </b>-<b> </b>more entertaining, dynamic, engaging, and deeply hilarious than a dystopian novel has any right to be
- Gary Shteyngart, author of Absurdistan and Super Sad True Love Story
<b>Anyone who wants to learn more about Russia and what could be the outcome of [Vladimir] Putin's rule should read the book. </b>It's dark and dystopian, but it's a part of our life
- Garry Kasparov, Time
<b>Compelling</b> . . . <b>Devastating</b> . . . <b>Powerful</b> . . . In <i>Day of the Oprichnik</i>, [Sorokin] combines futurological invention with political archaism to vicious satirical effect . . . It's as if hi-tech limbs had been grafted onto the torso of early modern statecraft: <b><i>Wolf Hall </i>meets William Gibson</b>
- Tony Wood, London Review of Books