After auditioning for the part as a singing geisha at a dubious bar,
Lena and eleven other "lucky" girls are sent to work at a posh
underground nightclub reserved exclusively for Russia's upper-crust
elite. They are to be a sideshow attraction to the rest of the club's
entertainment, and are billed as the "famous singing caryatids." Things
only get weirder from there. Secret ointments, praying mantises, sexual
escapades, and grotesque murder are quickly ushered into the plot. The
Russian literary master Victor Pelevin holds nothing back, and The Hall
of the Singing Caryatids, his most recent story to be translated into
English, is sure to make you squirm in your seat with utter delight.