She impersonates a lascivious fifteen-year-old prostitute, but in reality A Hu-Li is something far more unusual -- a ten-thousand-year-old shape-shifting werefox from ancient China. Hypnotizing men to absorb their life force isn't the worst way to make a buck in Moscow these days, but for all her spirited sophistication she's a little hung up about still being a virgin. But in Alexander, a Wagner-addicted werewolf who's the key figure in Russian Big Oil, A Hu-Li appears to have met her match. Or has she bitten off much more than she can chew this time around?

Both a paranormal love story and an outrageously funny send-up of modern Russia, this stunning and ingenious work of the imagination is the sharpest novel to date from a wildly gifted literary malcontent.