<div>Detailing a man's mental breakdown—and his obsession with a seductress named Lolita, the omnipresent "them," and the need to uncover what's "really going on"—<I>Vilnius Poker</I> is an epic, paranoid novel about the surreal absurdities and horrors of life under Soviet rule. In the words of <I>Kirkus Reviews</I>, "think of it as The Matrix behind the Iron Curtain—unsettling and profoundly interesting."</div>