Illustration for The New York Times Book Review

Illustration for the New York Times for a book review of Vladimir Sorokin’s “The Blizzard.” In the book, Garin, a district doctor, is desperately trying to reach the village of Dolgoye, where a mysterious epidemic is turning people into zombies. He carries with him a vaccine that will prevent the spread of this terrible disease, but is stymied in his travels by an impenetrable blizzard.