Rabbits and Boa Constrictors: A Novel

Praised by The New York Times Book Review as “an Abkhazian Mark Twain,” Fazil Iskander was one of the most acclaimed writers in the Soviet Union—and also one of the funniest. In Rabbits and Boa Constrictors, Iskander tells the story of a struggle between . . . well, rabbits and boa constrictors, which is really a struggle  between the manipulators and the manipulated as they try to function in a failed utopia. (Sound familiar?)