New from NO PRESS: THE DEATH OF VOLODYA PUTIN by Moez Surani

7.5″ x 5″, 24 pp., red covers, blue flyleaves, white pages; handbound with white thread.

limited edition of 80 copies

$10 each — order via paypal to derek@housepress.ca

“The Death of Volodya Putin is a documentary fiction whose protagonist is Russian President Vladimir Putin. To build this narrative, I researched worldwide descriptions of his imagined downfall and demise. This assemblage of witnesses and speculations builds an imaginative rendering of the last years of Vladimir Putin’s life. The Death of Volodya Putin functions as a kind of reverse panopticon: instead of the figure of power deploying his centrality to surveil and discipline those on the periphery, the journalists, artists, activists, and citizens I cite focus unrelentingly on the destructive principal at the center.”

— Moez Surani

“Mordantly funny, boldly and originally conceived and brilliantly executed—an unlikely cross, if you will, between The Death of Stalin and the late great Fazil Iskander’s The Feasts Of Belshazzar. Moez Surani is entirely sui generis—one of the most talented and innovative writers out there.”

— Mikhail Iossel