Thomas Pynchon is, along with Salinger, the “great American recluse”, one of the greatest writers of world literature of the 20th and now the 21st centuries, after his first publications he was unanimously recognized as a classic on the level of Nabokov, Joyce and Borges. In his Faulkner Prize-winning debut novel, V., which was shortlisted for the National Book Award, readers were first introduced to—and forever enchanted by—Pynchon's signature obsession with global conspiracies and the arcane dynamics of history. Here the paths of Benny the Profane, “the slammer and the animated yo-yo,” and the group of New York bohemians known as the Whole Sick Bunch, and Herbert Template cross, across many countries and decades following the trail of the elusive V. - either a woman or ideas... The translation is published in a new edition.