The queue

Thousands of citizens in line for... no one knows what! Sorokin's novel boldly tells the story of ordinary people on the street as they joke, fall in and out of love, solve crossword puzzles, even go to sleep and line up again in the morning in a long queue that resembles life itself. The novel The Queue does not follow the traditional narrative pattern; instead, the narrative unfolds as a dialogue, through which the reader clearly feels everything between the lines. The novel lacks description, phased divisions, or phased presentation of scenes in the text. This novel has been called the Encyclopedia of Soviet Dialogue.